Owing to the fact that the work load taken on by OEMs and suppliers has shifted to the benefit of the suppliers, OEMs have to focus increasingly on monitoring the production processes, on logistics and supply chain management, including the shop floor level. Today, shop floor staff use production monitoring tools that support manufacturing decisions which are merely based on production quantities. In the case of a facility breakdown or quality inspection results they only know that a certain number of vehicles is affected. However, they can neither identify the customer orders related to these vehicles nor their options, e.g. color, right or left hand drive, sun roof, etc. It would be a big step forward towards better and more transparent decisions if the shop floor people could base their decisions on identified vehicles/customer orders rather than on undefined production quantities. Production monitoring systems play a relevant role in supporting manufacturing operations; and, what is more, they can be seen as the operational part of the digital factory. Today's automotive plants are equipped with heterogeneous software systems for different types of tasks, both factory planning and manufacturing operations IT systems used for factory planning are summanzed as 'digital factory tools'. On the operating level, software systems are not yet integrated and thus support separate tasks such as production order control, production monitoring, sequence planning, vehicle identification, quality management, maintenance management, material control and others. A very promising technology for integrating existing software systems and their functionalities and to add assistant systems for the shop floor staff is to be found in software agents In this paper the author describes the current use of software agents for today's production tasks and his vision for applying agent technology in future automotive production.


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    Titel :

    Agent technology used for monitoring of automotive production


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Durchgängige Technologie für die Überwachung der fahrzeugtechnischen Produktion


    Beteiligte:
    Sauer, Olaf (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2004


    Format / Umfang :

    9 Seiten, 10 Bilder, 11 Quellen



    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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