Title :
Fault Tolerance for Manufacturing Components
Author :
Marcos-Jorquera, Diego ; Maciá-Pérez, Francisco ; Gilart-Iglesias, Virgilio ; Capella-D´Alton, A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Alicante Univ.
Abstract :
This article proposes a multiagent system for industrial production elements that transfers the concept of fault tolerance to the manufacturing levels of the organisation, acting automatically under open protocols when there is degradation or failure of any of the components, ensuring that normal operation is resumed within a delimited time. The main characteristics of this system are the drastic reduction in recovery times, the support for the significant heterogeneity existing in these scenarios and their high level of automation, while practically dispensing with the intervention of system administrators.
Keywords :
fault tolerance; manufacturing systems; multi-agent systems; fault tolerance; industrial production element; manufacturing component; multiagent system; open protocol; Computer industry; Computer science; Degradation; Electrical equipment industry; Fault tolerance; Industrial control; Machinery production industries; Manufacturing industries; Production systems; Protocols;
Conference_Titel :
Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 2006. ETFA '06. IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Prague
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9758-4
DOI :
10.1109/ETFA.2006.355396