HOLONIC MANUFACTURING SYSTEM AND HCBA PROPOSAL OF VARIATIONS AND THEIR IMPLEMENTATION

Abstract

HMS have emerged as an approach towards FMS to respond to the erratic market trends and consumer demands. To implement HMS, in control systems, is the Holonic Component Based Architecture (HCBA). It is a combined form of Component Based Development (CBD) and HMS. CBD is basically a programming approach in which a problem is solved by a solution that consists of many modules instead of a monolithic module. It very close to OOP, but is an improvement over it. This paper explains the approach of HMS and the concept of Holonic Component Based Architecture. Some variations have also been proposed in the existing structure of HCBA. Merits and de-merits of HMS in the present scenario have been discussed.