Distributed control for Industry 4.0 -A comparative simulation study

IFAC-PapersOnLine, vol. 54, pp. 516–521

Abstract

The recent decades have seen various market changes that industrial manufactures need to address. Increasing individualization of products and rapid demand fluctuations require new control approaches. In this article, we study the performance of centralized and distributed control approaches with regard to work in progress in a make-to-order environment. We utilize a multi-agent system in a discrete-event simulation to model several control approaches and provide various insights into potential benefits of distributed control concepts given rapidly fluctuating manufacturing demand.

Authors 2

1. Oliver Antons corresponding Aachen Chair of Management Science

   RWTH Aachen University

   Affiliation as printed

   Chair of Management Science, RWTH Aachen University, Kackertstraße 7, 52072 Aachen, Germany

2. Julia C. Arlinghaus

   Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg

   Affiliation as printed

   Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Universitätsplatz 2, 31904 Magdeburg, Germany