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Multi-agent systems is being pointed as particularly suited to design and engineer a new class of control systems to operate at the factory plants addressing the current requirements of modularity, flexibility and re-configurability. This paper introduces the main principles of a multi-agent system approach to support the integration of production and quality control processes in washing machines production lines that is being developed under the EU FP7 GRACE project.
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Leitão, P., Rodrigues, N. (2011). Multi-Agent System for On-demand Production Integrating Production and Quality Control. In: Mařík, V., Vrba, P., Leitão, P. (eds) Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing. HoloMAS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6867. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23181-0_8
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