File(s) under permanent embargo
Experiments toward a practical implementation of an intelligent kanban system
conference contribution
posted on 2005-01-01, 00:00 authored by James ZhangJames Zhang, J Brusey, R JohnstonThis paper presents laboratory experiments to test a bottom up approach to production control and supply chain management. Built upon the successful traditional kanban (Card) system, the new intelligent system associates a kanban agent to each physical kanban. Instead of relying on demand forecast and planning, kanban agents reason about their own movements to adapt to changing demands. After previous simulations results of the intelligent system showed significant performance improvements over the traditional system, we further use the Auto-ID Laboratory at Cambridge University to test the feasibility of the idea in a realistic manufacturing environment. The results from the experiments demonstrated the superiority on several performance measures of the intelligent system compared to the traditional system used as a benchmark. Moreover, the implementation of the experiments exposed several real world constraints not shown in the simulation study and practical solutions were adopted to address these.
History
Event
International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems (2nd : 2005 : Copenhagen, Denmark)Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. v.3593/2005Pagination
257 - 268Publisher
Springer BerlinLocation
Heidelberg, GermanyPlace of publication
Heidelberg, GermanyPublisher DOI
Start date
2005-08-22End date
2005-08-24ISSN
1611-3349eISSN
0302-9743ISBN-13
9783540282372Language
engPublication classification
E1.1 Full written paper - refereedCopyright notice
2005, Springer-Verlag Berlin HeidelbergTitle of proceedings
HoloMAS 2005 : Holonic and multi-agent systems for manufacturing : second International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems, HoloMAS 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 22-24, 2005 ; proceedingsUsage metrics
Categories
No categories selectedKeywords
Licence
Exports
RefWorks
BibTeX
Ref. manager
Endnote
DataCite
NLM
DC