Towards a new generation of intelligent manufacturing systems

The paper intends to present a modeling philosophy, that allows a global view of a generic manufacturing enterprise behavior, combining managerial and control approaches. The main objective of the assessment is to design a system architecture for manufacturing that will be able to develop an intelligent comportment displaying characteristics like environment adaptability, problem solving and learning from experience. The foundations of this approach are mainly knowledge management and control engineering techniques, as well as agent-based architectures.