Title :
Intelligent monitoring system used to control asynchronous production systems
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McMaster Univ., Hamilton, Ont., Canada
Abstract :
A large amount of information is required to effectively manage a flexible asynchronous production system, such as a car assembly plant in Oshawa, Ontario. Such system is highly influenced by human factors. An intelligent production monitoring system (IPMS) was developed specifically for this production system. IPMS is a medium for presenting a vast amount of relevant, real-time and historical production information to the car plant management staff. Together with the standard predictive online models it allows experienced supervisory staff to arrive at operational decisions during shifts
Keywords :
automobile industry; computerised monitoring; flexible manufacturing systems; human factors; production control; real-time systems; asynchronous production control; car assembly plant; flexible asynchronous production system; human factors; intelligent production monitoring system; predictive online models; real-time; Assembly; Computerized monitoring; Control systems; Creep; Hardware; Human factors; Intelligent systems; Production systems; Vehicles; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Virtual and Intelligent Measurement Systems, 2001, IEEE International Workshop on. VIMS 2001
Conference_Location :
Budapest
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6568-2
DOI :
10.1109/VIMS.2001.924897
