Abstract
Recently, new distributed architectures of manufacturing systems are proposed, aiming at realizing more flexible control structures of the manufacturing systems. Many researches have been carried out to discus distributed architectures for planning and control of the systems. However, the labor has not been considered enough for the components of the manufacturing system based on distributed architecture, in the previous researches. In this research, the function of labor is discussed, and real-time scheduling process based on decision making by labor is proposed. The interface between the labor and the real-time scheduling system is also proposed.
