Chalmers Conferences, The 6th Swedish Production Symposium

IMPROVING PERFORMANCE IN FLEXIBLE MANUFACTORING BY A P-SOP APPROACH
Bo Svensson, Fredrik Danielsson

Last modified: 2014-11-21

Abstract


This paper present a Part oriented Sequence of Operation (P-SOP) approach that address flexibility, robustness and deployment in manufacturing cells up to plant level. A P-SOP description language has been formulated where the control strategy based on actual circumstances easily can be defined. Furthermore, a P-SOP multi-agent generator has been created that compiles the strategy description to multi-agents that control the manufacturing. Deadlock free IEC 61131-3 PLC code are directly generated from the description language. The code is not optimised for a specific scenario since the general description contains all possible routing paths and all resources available.

Keywords


Multi-agent, Flexible manufacturing, IEC 61131-3, code generation, PLC

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