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Fig. 35.3 Construction of a virtual PCA line
the usage stage. The user of this digital eco-factory can easily customize the configuration of the factory, target production scenario, granularity of simulation parameters,
etc. This comes from modeling of each equipment including the performance simulation procedure which is equipment behavior. At this moment, an e-catalogue of
a buffer had been introduced for more precise simulation of the virtual production
(Matsumoto and Matsuda 2017).
This trial implementation on a PCA also shows how to make software agents of
component equipment on the production line using an equipment model and how to
construct a virtual production line as a multi-agent system. On a PCA line, interaction
of equipment agents is simple. In other words, equipment agents are connected
in sequence. The former positioned equipment finishes the job and then the next
positioned equipment starts the job and finishes the job, and so on. However, in most
of the production lines, there are more complicated interactions among equipment.
Here is a requirement for the extension of an e-cataloging method.
M. Matsuda et al.
Fig. 35.3 Construction of a virtual PCA line
the usage stage. The user of this digital eco-factory can easily customize the configuration of the factory, target production scenario, granularity of simulation parameters,
etc. This comes from modeling of each equipment including the performance simulation procedure which is equipment behavior. At this moment, an e-catalogue of
a buffer had been introduced for more precise simulation of the virtual production
(Matsumoto and Matsuda 2017).
This trial implementation on a PCA also shows how to make software agents of
component equipment on the production line using an equipment model and how to
construct a virtual production line as a multi-agent system. On a PCA line, interaction
of equipment agents is simple. In other words, equipment agents are connected
in sequence. The former positioned equipment finishes the job and then the next
positioned equipment starts the job and finishes the job, and so on. However, in most
of the production lines, there are more complicated interactions among equipment.
Here is a requirement for the extension of an e-cataloging method.