Realisability of production recipes

There is a rising demand for customised products with a high degree of complexity. To meet these demands, manufacturing lines are increasingly becoming autonomous, networked, and intelligent, with production lines being virtualised into a manufacturing cloud, and advertised either internally to a co...

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Main Authors: de Silva, Lavindra, Felli, Paolo, Chaplin, Jack C., Logan, Brian, Sanderson, David, Ratchev, Svetan
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Published: 2016
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/35424/
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author de Silva, Lavindra
Felli, Paolo
Chaplin, Jack C.
Logan, Brian
Sanderson, David
Ratchev, Svetan
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Felli, Paolo
Chaplin, Jack C.
Logan, Brian
Sanderson, David
Ratchev, Svetan
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description There is a rising demand for customised products with a high degree of complexity. To meet these demands, manufacturing lines are increasingly becoming autonomous, networked, and intelligent, with production lines being virtualised into a manufacturing cloud, and advertised either internally to a company, or externally in a public cloud. In this paper, we present a novel approach to two key problems in such future manufacturing systems: the realisability problem (whether a product can be manufactured by a set of manufacturing resources) and the control problem (how a particular product should be manufactured). We show how both production recipes specifying the steps necessary to manufacture a particular product, and manufacturing resources and their topology can be formalised as labelled transition systems, and define a novel simulation relation which captures what it means for a recipe to be realisable on a production topology. We show how a controller that can orchestrate the resources in order to manufacture the product on the topology can be extracted from the simulation relation, and give an algorithm to compute a simulation relation and a controller.
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spelling nottingham-354242020-05-04T18:05:57Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/35424/ Realisability of production recipes de Silva, Lavindra Felli, Paolo Chaplin, Jack C. Logan, Brian Sanderson, David Ratchev, Svetan There is a rising demand for customised products with a high degree of complexity. To meet these demands, manufacturing lines are increasingly becoming autonomous, networked, and intelligent, with production lines being virtualised into a manufacturing cloud, and advertised either internally to a company, or externally in a public cloud. In this paper, we present a novel approach to two key problems in such future manufacturing systems: the realisability problem (whether a product can be manufactured by a set of manufacturing resources) and the control problem (how a particular product should be manufactured). We show how both production recipes specifying the steps necessary to manufacture a particular product, and manufacturing resources and their topology can be formalised as labelled transition systems, and define a novel simulation relation which captures what it means for a recipe to be realisable on a production topology. We show how a controller that can orchestrate the resources in order to manufacture the product on the topology can be extracted from the simulation relation, and give an algorithm to compute a simulation relation and a controller. 2016-08-24 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed de Silva, Lavindra, Felli, Paolo, Chaplin, Jack C., Logan, Brian, Sanderson, David and Ratchev, Svetan (2016) Realisability of production recipes. In: 22nd European Conference in Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2016), 29 Aug-2 Sept 2016, The Hague, Netherlands. http://ebooks.iospress.nl/volumearticle/44902
spellingShingle de Silva, Lavindra
Felli, Paolo
Chaplin, Jack C.
Logan, Brian
Sanderson, David
Ratchev, Svetan
Realisability of production recipes
title Realisability of production recipes
title_full Realisability of production recipes
title_fullStr Realisability of production recipes
title_full_unstemmed Realisability of production recipes
title_short Realisability of production recipes
title_sort realisability of production recipes
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/35424/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/35424/