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Rationales of Holonic Manufacturing Systems in Leather Industry

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This paper presents an insight into leather manufacturing processes, depicting peculiarities and challenges faced by leather industry. An analysis of this industry reveals the need for a new approach to optimize the productivity of leather processing operations, ensure consistent quality of leather, mitigate the adverse health effects in tannery workers exposed to chemicals and comply with environmental regulation. Holonic manufacturing systems (HMS) paradigm represent a bottom-up distributed approach that provides stability, adaptability, efficient use of resources and a plug and operate functionality to the manufacturing system. A vision of how HMS might operate in a tannery is illustrated presenting the rationales behind its application in this industry.

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  1. Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University Politehnica of Bucharest, 313, Spl. Independentei, Sector 6, RO-060042, Bucharest, Romania

    Sergiu-Adrian Guţă & Ioan Dumitrache

  2. Distributed Information & Automation Laboratory, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge, 17 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge, CB3 0FS, UK

    Duncan McFarlane & Tariq Masood

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  1. Department of Cybernetics, Czech Technical University, Technická 2, 166 27, Prague, Czech Republic

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  2. Department of Production Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, Korkeakoulunkatu 6, 33720, Tampere, Finland

    Jose L. Martinez Lastra

  3. Smart Solutions Ltd., Moscowskoe shosse 17, 443013, Samara, Russia

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Guţă, SA., Dumitrache, I., McFarlane, D., Masood, T. (2013). Rationales of Holonic Manufacturing Systems in Leather Industry. In: Mařík, V., Lastra, J.L.M., Skobelev, P. (eds) Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8062. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40090-2_18

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