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Agents and Manufacturing
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Agents for factory planning and scheduling
- AARIA, Autonomous Agents
at Rock Island Arsenal, is an ARPA-sponsored project designing an
autonomous agent based factory scheduler at the Rock Island
Arsenal. The project team is headed by Intelligent Automation,
Inc. (Rockville, MD) and includes the University of Cincinnati,
Industrial Technology Institute, and Flavors Technology, Inc. The
agents, programmed in objective-C and running on a network of Pentium
based computers under PDO (Portable Distributed Objects), will
actively represent each step on the ladder of manufacturing a part:
going from the customer, through the sales representative, engineers,
manufacturing processes, and finally to the raw
materials. 7/29/96
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- Conference on
Agile and Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, October 2-3, 1996,
Troy, NY. "... a two-day conference focussing on the design,
manufacturing, planning, control and distribution aspects of agile and
intelligent manufacturing systems." Papers on agile and intelligent
manufacturing are sought on these topics: Supply chain integration and
management; Design and manufacturing information integration; Design
and planning integration for product realization; Planning and control
systems; and Information infrastructure. Deadlines: June 7: letter of
intent to participate and extended abstacts. June 25: notification of
acceptance. August 9: full papers due. 5/8/96
Agents and Web-Based Design Environments
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Agents and Web-Based Design Environments Contact Person: Alice
Agogino, aagogino@euler.berkeley.edu, In conjunction with the Fourth
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Design
(AID'96), 24-27 June 1996, Stanford University, California, USA.
3/26/96
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- SIGMAN is an alliance of members of the American Association for
Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) who are interested in the theory and
practice of AI as applied to manufacturing problems such as materials
and design, operations and production, distribution and field service,
and organization and management. SIGMAN exists to facilitate
communication and cooperation among those interested in defining
manufacturing problems which are amenable to AI-based solutions,
developing and describing such solutions, and evaluating
implementations in service and against one another. SIGMAN supports
its members through such activities as holding business meetings,
organizing workshops, publishing newsletters, and maintaining
benchmark problem sets.
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Conference on Plug and Play Software for Agile Manufacturing
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Conference on Plug and Play Software for Agile Manufacturing Part
of SPIE's Photonics East '96 Symposium on Intelligent Systems and
Advanced Manufacturing. 18-22 November 1996, Hynes Convention Center,
Boston, Massachusetts USA. Includes object-oriented and agent-based
integration approaches. Abstracts due 4/22/96, manuscript due
10/21/96. 3/17/96
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Agent-Oriented Systems in Manufacturing
- Call for Papers: European Workshop on
Agent-Oriented Systems in Manufacturing, September 26 and 27, 1996
Berlin, Germany 3/22?96
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- Edited by A. Fazel Famili, Dana S. Nau, and Steven H. Kim.
AAAI Press/MIT Press, 475 pp., $39.95 paperback, ISBN 0-262-56066-6.
This book contains three sections. Section one focuses on the
applications of AI in design and planning; section two is devoted to
the AI applications in scheduling and control; and section three is
about the use of AI in manufacturing integration.
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- Sandia's Distributed Systems Research Department is collaborating
with groups from Stanford and Berkeley to develop an agent
architecture to support agile manufacturing.
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This home page outlines the research efforts undertaken at Stanford's
Center for Design Research in conjunction with Sandia National
Laboratories on the SIAM Project.
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- An abstract describing an ESPRIT project aimed at developing an
"Adaptive Intelligent Factory".
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- A paper by Sivaram Balasubramanian and Douglas H. Norrie,
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Calgary which
describes a proof-of-concept system based on cooperating intelligent
entities in the sub-domains which make decisions through negotiation,
using domain-specific knowledge both distributed among the entities
and accessible to them.
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- An overview of the ARPA-sponsored SHADE project which developed
technology to facilitate the sharing and access of information in a
manufacturing context.
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- An ATP project to "Develop technologies for a plug-and-play
framework of integratable business objects and software agents to
enable agile manufacturing by making shop-floor status and capacity
information available in real-time throughout an enterprise."
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