| Title | Possibilities to Extend the Holonic Manufacturing Concept to Non-Industrial Environments |
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| ID_Doc | 43620 |
| Authors | Bakos, LA; Dumitrascu, DD |
| Title | Possibilities to Extend the Holonic Manufacturing Concept to Non-Industrial Environments |
| Year | 2017 |
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| Abstract | The Holonic Manufacturing System (HMS) concept is one of the most developed approaches, which aims to improve the adaptability and the responsiveness of manufacturing systems. It is one of the most promising "next generation manufacturing systems" or "intelligent manufacturing systems" The "holons" are specially design entities inside the manufacturing system, which are "wholes" and "parts" at the same time, and they have the ability to make their own choices under certain circumstances. Because of this double status of the holons, the HMS concept succeed to overcome the rigidity and slow reactions to disturbances of the classical hierarchical productions systems, maintaining at the same time the system's stability and reliability. Among the practical results we find, several reference architectures, communication protocols and large-scale industrial software applications. These computer supported collaborative decision making applications are already successfully applied in supply chain management and logistics, too. This way the holonic approach already exceeded the boundaries of a single enterprise. In the paper we will point out, that the concept might be useful also in non-industrial, non-technical or technological context. In the paper we propose both theoretical and practical developments of the HMS concept. We mostly focus on upgrading the information systems management of businesses and public services. The paper would like to show that this new-fashioned way in which the HMS handles complex systems makes it appealing and challenging for many other activity fields. |
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