Integrating secure resource negotiating agents into telemanufacturing.

• Main Author: Van Zyl, Terence Lesley
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: engineering prototypes; rapid prototyping; intelligent agents (computer software); manufacturing processes; computer integrated manufacturing systems
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/519

Through the use of rapid prototyping it is possible to move directly from a computer design to a nal physical product without human intervention. Telemanufacturing is an extension to rapid prototyping that presents a data communications based interface to rapid prototyping. Resource negotiating agents are able to provide a completely autonomous negotiation process. By integrating resource negotiating agents into a telemanufacturing environment, an opportunity for a completely automated supply chain is presented. === Prof. E.M. Ehlers