Agent-Based Manufacturing and Control Systems: New Agile Manufacturing Solutions for Achieving Peak Performance

Chapter 7: Future Challenges

Having reached the conclusion of the book, we hope that the reader and the PS-Bikes staff will feel acquainted with the current state of the art of agent-based manufacturing and the related practical possibilities to enhance the agility of manufacturing companies in order to achieve peak performance. On the other hand, it should be evident that manufacturing agentification is still far from being the approach. For example, Chapter 3 and Chapter 6 highlighted the gap still separating conventional and agent-based planning, scheduling, and control techniques. It follows that the reader and PS-Bikes staff should welcome as a conclusion to this book greater insight into the current research trends in this field and into what should be expected in the next few years. This text is not meant to serve as an oracle of agent-based manufacturing s imminent future; however, this closing chapter will describe these issues, endeavoring to highlight what has yet to be done or otherwise refined in the field. Here, academic researchers should be able to find important indications about the most promising, but not fully explored, trends in agent-based research applied to the manufacturing world.

INTRODUCTION

Are agents and multiagent systems (MASs) a suitable solution for next-generation agile manufacturing systems? What direction should research on MASs take in the near future to enhance their appropriateness for manufacturing? These are the main questions that this final chapter seeks to answer. In this introduction, some recommendations arising from earlier chapters about the application of MASs in manufacturing are...

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