ExPlanTech and ExtraPlant: multi-agent technology for production planning, simulation and extra-enterprise collaboration

摘要

This paper presents a unified multi-agent technology for decision-making support in production planning and scheduling, manufacturing simulation and collaboration among enterprises. We distinguish intra-enterprise and extra-enterprise levels of production planning problem. Two technologies covering both levels have been developed, ExPlanTech for intra-enterprise level and ExtraPlanT for extra-enterprise level. Developed technology implementing prototypes can be used separately, be connected to other systems or together to maximize utility. The technology has been tested on industrial cases.