Handling complexity in Evolvable Production Systems

Current demand for agile and sustainable production systems increases the needs of strategies to cope with the arising complexity of product transformation. In the EPS framework these strategies include a process-oriented modularization as well as distributed control solutions based on Multi-Agent technology. Reference Architecture and ontological representation of the logical and physical links in the system are at the basis of developing and running a production system in an EPS environment. This paper provides a review of EPS features and their effects on the complexity and the ability to handle it.