Agent based modeling in factory planning and process control

Nowadays the need for autonomous distributed manufacturing systems is increasing. Due to the rapid change of technology and the need of more customer oriented products, manufacturing systems need to be more dynamic. In the past few years, Agent Based Modules (ABM) were introduced to optimize autonomous distributed systems as well as for process control. In this paper we review the literature addressing ABM in manufacturing strategy and dynamic process control between 2009 and 2015 to provide an up-to-date picture of the role of ABM to solve such problems and its efficiency as well as its future challenges.