Transactions on Machine Learning and Data Mining (ISSN: 1865-6781)
Volume 8 - Number 1 - July 2015 - Pages 41-58
Transductional Holonic Formalisms for Control Systems Applications
Calin Ciufudean, Constantin Filote, and Valentin Vlad
Stefan cel Mare University, Romani
Abstract
In this chapter the expression 'holonic cyclic manufacturing systems' refers to complex assembly/disassembly systems or fork/join systems, kanban systems, and in general, to any discrete event system that transforms raw material and/or components into products. Such a system is said to be cyclic if it provides the same sequence of products indefinitely. This chapter considers the scheduling of holonic cyclic manufacturing systems and describes a new approach using Petri nets formalism. We propose an approach to frame the optimum schedule of holonic cyclic manufacturing systems in order to maximize the throughput while minimize the work in process. We also propose an algorithm to verify the optimum schedule.
Keywords: Petri Net, Event Graph, Holonic Cyclic Manufacturing System, Minimum Cyclic Time, Kanban System
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