Self-organization in distributed manufacturing control: state-of-the-art and future trends

Facing new and varied customer´s needs, strategies of production have radically changed during these list three decades leading to a need for agile and, as a consequence, self-organized manufacturing control systems. One possible way to integrate self-organization capability is to move from rigid centralized architectures towards distributed architectures. In this paper, we present a state-of-the-art of self-organization models in distributed manufacturing control, according to the bionic, holonic, multi-agent and heterarchical design approaches. We show the potential capabilities offered by these approaches to integrate self-organization mechanisms. Meanwhile, we also point out the insufficiencies of existing contributions, which lead us to highlight some future trends in the design of effective self-organized manufacturing control systems.