Presenting capabilities of resources and resource combinations to support production system adaptation

Today´s turbulent production environment calls for adaptive and rapidly responding production systems that can adjust to required changes both in production capacity and processing functions. This kind of adaptivity can not be reached without intelligent methods and tools supporting the adaptation planning and deployment of the systems. This paper introduces novel method to present and manage capabilities of production resources and combined capabilities of multiple co-operating resources. This modeling approach enables matching of products and resources based on their required and provided capabilities and this way supports rapid allocation of resources.