ホロニック生産のための工程設計システムに関する研究 : 第1報, システムの基本構成と加工フィーチャの認識

抄録

New architectures of the manufacturing systems have been proposed aiming at realizing more flexible control structures of the manufacturing systems which can cope with the dynamic changes in the volume and the variety of the products. They are so called as holonic manufacturing systems, autonomous distributed manufacturing systems, random manufacturing systems and bionic manufacturing systems. The objective of the present research is to develop an integrated process planning and scheduling system which is applicable to the holonic manufacturing systems. A basic architecture is proposed in the paper to realize a process planning system for the holonic manufacturing systems. The system consists of three types of holons; they are, order holons, workpiece holons and machining equipment holons. The workpiece holons carry out process planning tasks referring to the schedules and the availability of the machining equipment. A procedure is proposed to extract the machining features from the product model based on the shape generation functions of the machining equipment.