基于Agent和工作流的跨企业协同制造支持系统

通过分析跨企业协同制造业务过程,提出基于Agent的柔性工作流驱动的跨企业协同制造支持平台,其核心是一组自主交互的智能Agent,通过Agent之间的协作实现协同制造任务建模、制造任务动态调度与分配、制造资源管理及制造过程管理等功能。讨论了系统结构设计、关键技术及系统实现,并以航空发动机企业间协同制造为例进行验证。系统表现了较好的模块化特性、柔性和开放性,并可能在敏捷供应链及扩散制造方面获得进一步应用。

A Workflow and Agent Based Platform for Collaborative Manufacturing Across Enterprises

This paper presented an agent and workflow based a cross enterprise collaborative manufacturing platform,in which a set of intelligent agents cooperated to perform manufacturing jobs and process modeling,dynamic task scheduling and dispatching,resource management as well as manufacturing process management on the basis of a shared domain ontology.Key issues such as system architecture,knowledge based job modeling and scheduling,resource brokering,task allocation and agent interactions were discussed and a prototype implemented based on JADE agent framework and Jess Rule engine were proposed.The manufacturing process of an aircraft engine which spans across multiple enterprises was used to prove the concept and system.With the attribute of modulation,flexibility,and openness,the platform can be further applied to support Outsourced Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management.