In: Computers & Industrial Engineering, Vol. 17; Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, 1989, Orlando, FL, USA, pages 18-23. 1989.
Abstract: An expert control system was designed to control an unmanned manufacturing cell in order to meet the operational requirements of a Cellular Manufacturing System (CMS). In this paper, a knowledge-based three-layer control concept was used to build the cell control system. The cell control algorithms and heuristics are based on the pull system control principle. A Petri net is used to generate the cell control algorithm. The structure of the control system and the application of the Petri net method are demonstrated.
Keywords: expert system (for) manufacturing cell control; cellular manufacturing system; knowledge-based three-layer control; pull system control; knowledge-based control.