Real-Virtual Fusion Manufacturing Scheduling with Social Contract-based Approach (2nd Report)

—Influence of the Generated Range of Virtual System on Rescheduling—

Abstract

In this study, a new concept of agent-based 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 and virtual manufacturing system model. In this paper, for the social contract-based production scheduling in RVF-MS, a method of limiting partial components for generating virtual system is proposed at operational phase. The influence of the generated range of virtual systems on rescheduling results is analyzed by computational experiments on flexible flow shop problem.