Queueless: Agent-Based Manufacturing for Workshop Production

James Gopsill; Martins Obi; Lorenzo Giunta; Mark Goudswaard

doi:10.1007/978-981-19-3359-2_3

Queueless: Agent-Based Manufacturing for Workshop Production

James Gopsill, Martins Obi, Lorenzo Giunta, Mark Goudswaard

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Workshops are vital to product development, supporting prototyping, research & development, bespoke and small-batch production, and education. They are composed of diverse manufacturing capability that needs to meet varied, rapid, diverse and often random changes in demand. The diversity in both composition and demand continues to challenge the optimal processing of jobs leading to considerable delays and dissatisfaction with workshop services. In this paper, we examine how a workshop can optimally utilise its manufacturing capability through an agent-based approach. We show that a relatively simple set of agent logics can provide considerable configurability and ability to optimise a workshop of twenty machines meeting a step-change in demand. Appropriate configuration can result in a 40% change in mean Time in System and 20% change in the number of jobs delayed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications 2022
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of 16th KES International Conference, KES-AMSTA 2022, June 2022
Publisher	Springer
Pages	27-37
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3359-2_3
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 23 Aug 2022

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