A study on a real-time scheduling of Holonic Manufacturing Systems : Determination of effectiveness values based on estimation

Abstract

This paper deals with a real-time scheduling system of HMS (Holonic Manufacturing System). A decision making process based on the effectiveness values have been proposed and applied to the real-time scheduling problems of the HMS in the previous report. New systematic methods for the individual holons are proposed, in the paper, to determine the effectiveness values based on the estimation of the future HMS status, aiming at improving the previous methods. The effectiveness of the proposed methods are verified through the case studies.