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HMS — Holonic Manufacturing Systems Test Case (IMS Project)

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Enterprise Engineering and Integration

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This paper surveys the activities and results of the IMS test case entitled: ‘Holonic Manufacturing Systems: System Components of Autonomous Modules and their Distributed Control.’ This one-year project (1993) covers a wide range of manufacturing systems, encompassing discrete, continuous and/or batch processing. It puts forward a new paradigm for manufacturing: the holonic manufacturing system.

Currently, a European follow-up project is expected to start by the end of this year. Up-to-date information concerning the IMS/HMS project can be down-loaded from internet [1].

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  1. http://hms.ncms.org

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  1. Division PMA Celestijnenlaan 300B, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, B-3001, Leuven, Belgium

    H. Van Brussel, P. Valckenaers & J. Wyns

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  1. H. Van Brussel
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  1. CIMOSA Association, Stockholmer Str. 7, D-71034, Böblingen, Germany

    Kurt Kosanke

  2. National Institute of Standards and Technology, Bldg. 220, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899, USA

    James G. Nell

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Van Brussel, H., Valckenaers, P., Wyns, J. (1997). HMS — Holonic Manufacturing Systems Test Case (IMS Project). In: Kosanke, K., Nell, J.G. (eds) Enterprise Engineering and Integration. Research Reports Esprit. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60889-6_31

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