Abstract
In this study, a new concept named Real-Virtual Fusion Manufacturing System (RVF-MS) is proposed, which aims to adaptively and effectively deal with both external and internal fluctuations by realizing a fusion between real production shop floor (real system) and manufacturing model (virtual system). In order to realize the proposed methodology, a concept based on multi-agent system is used for constructing dynamic model in the virtual system. In this paper, production scheduling mechanism at operational phase for RVF-MS is proposed. A social contract based approach named Combinatorial Auction (CA), which is used at planning phase, is also applied. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by computational experiments for flexible flow shop problem.
