The performance of product-driven manufacturing control: An emulation-based benchmarking study

Product-driven control may enable manufacturing companies to meet business demands more quickly and effectively. But a key point in making this concept acceptable by industry is to provide benchmarking environments in order to compare and analyze their efficiency on emulated large-scale industry-led...

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Published in:Computers in industry 2009-04, Vol.60 (3), p.195-203
Main Authors: Pannequin, Rémi, Morel, Gérard, Thomas, André
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Automobile industry
Benchmarking
Benchmarks
Computer Aided Engineering
Computer architecture
Computer Science
Decision making
Intelligent manufacturing systems
MAS
Product-driven control
Protocol
Simulation
Studies
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Summary:Product-driven control may enable manufacturing companies to meet business demands more quickly and effectively. But a key point in making this concept acceptable by industry is to provide benchmarking environments in order to compare and analyze their efficiency on emulated large-scale industry-led case studies with regard to current technologies and approaches. In this paper, a benchmarking protocol is defined, in order to provide R&D practitioners with benchmarking services in a product-driven implementation project. A component-based generic architecture is proposed to support this protocol, enabling to model and compare various control architectures. This benchmarking protocol is applied to an automotive-industry case study in order to evaluate the impact of making the products interact with the local decision centers. Finally the experiments show that product-driven control can perform as good as traditional centralized control, and that its robustness depends mainly of the local decision-making processes.
ISSN:0166-3615
1872-6194
DOI:10.1016/j.compind.2008.12.007