A Distributed Framework for Cooperative Scheduling of Production, Transportation, and Maintenance Using Multi-Agent Systems
摘要
Manufacturing systems often face conflicting demands between production, maintenance, and transport services, as the activities of each can disrupt the operations of the others. To address these conflicts and ensure a harmonized workflow, this paper introduces an advanced multi-agent system with three distinct SCEP (Supervisor, Customers, Environment and Producers) models for production, maintenance, and transport. The objective is to facilitate distributed joint scheduling of these three critical areas, with considerations about the health state of the machines. This approach allows the integrated scheduling of production, transport, and predictive maintenance activities based on real-time health assessments of the machines. By doing so, the system aims at resolving operational conflicts among the services, ensuring that all stakeholders of these three domains collaborate effectively towards a common goal.