Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems are the most flexible and productive systems since they are based on standard/template sub-systems and elements. Configuring requires an analysis of the existing enterprise facilities along with its future goals. The results of such an analysis will be required for determining an appropriate reference configuration to build an enterprise. During the configuring, the structure and the elements of systems must be modified and adapted to new goals and new sub-systems or elements must be added. The organization of these processes, called Configuration Management, constitutes the main focus of this paper.
manufacturing system, configuration management, muhi-agent system. constraint network
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