Anarchic manufacturing: implementing fully distributed control and planning in assembly

This paper demonstrates that a distributed control and planning system can fulfil an idealised mixed-model assembly problem and compete with traditional systems. The anarchic manufacturing system is a distributed planning and control system, based on a free market structure, where system elements ha...

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Main Authors: Andrew Ma, Aydin Nassehi, Chris Snider
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2021-01-01
Series:Production and Manufacturing Research: An Open Access Journal
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21693277.2021.1963346