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A Service-Oriented Approach for Holonic Manufacturing Control and Beyond

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Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing Control

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The Holonic Manufacturing Execution System (HMES), developed at K.U.Leuven, utilizes a service-oriented approach to control manufacturing operations in real time. This chapter first explains how manufacturing control emerges from interaction between intelligent products and intelligent resources. Services play a key role in this interaction and form a decoupling point between the generic control system and application-specific elements. To illustrate that this service-oriented approach allows applying the same concepts and principles to various domains, several applications in manufacturing, open-air engineering, robotics and logistics are described. Finally, the chapter describes how supporting services, such as maintenance, can be seamlessly integrated with the core activities of the system.

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    Jan Van Belle, Johan Philips, Osman Ali, Bart Saint Germain, Hendrik Van Brussel & Paul Valckenaers

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Van Belle, J., Philips, J., Ali, O., Germain, B.S., Van Brussel, H., Valckenaers, P. (2012). A Service-Oriented Approach for Holonic Manufacturing Control and Beyond. In: Borangiu, T., Thomas, A., Trentesaux, D. (eds) Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing Control. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 402. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27449-7_1

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