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Enhancing a Biological inspired Self-organized Architecture towards Smart Manufacturing

Abstract:

In last decades, new manufacturing requirements have introduced new approaches for distributed control and automation, some of them introducing concepts as self-organization and emergence. BIOSOARM (a Bio-inspired Self-organising Architecture for Manufacturing Cyber-physical Shopfloors) is an example of such architectures. It has significant insights regarding self-organization, pluggability and scalability of manufacturing resources. Despite such architectural patterns, there are aspects that can be integrated and enhanced e.g. the utilization of experience-based knowledge, stability mechanisms, process optimization, etc. These aspects are also part of current industrial expectations and can improve its adaptability and evolvability. Thus, the major contribution of this paper is to have a path and discussion towards enhancing BIOSOARM by means of a weaknesses analysis. As a result, new building blocks to the existing BIOSOARM architecture are proposed. The matrix production concept is suggested as a potential use case of the current approach.