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Publication summary
Author(s): Charles McLean
Publication date: August 1985
Citation: Charles McLean: "An Architecture for Intelligent Manufacturing Control," Proceedings of ASME Conference, August, 1985.
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Abstract:
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A small batch manufacturing system testbed, currently under
construction at the National Bureau of Standards (NBS), is designed to
support research in factory automation standards. One of the
expressed goals of the NBS Automated Manufacturing Research Facility
(AMRF) project is the specification of the interfaces which must exist
between component systems of automated factories. Many new component
systems will have to be developed before automated factories possess a
level of intelligence equal to that found in conventional
manufacturing. Undoubtedly, factories will eventually be constructed
from modules that are offered as "plug compatible" products by
different systems vendors. These vendors will need a standard factory
model or system architecture for planning and implementing external
interfaces to their proprietary systems. This paper describes aspects
of the AMRF architecture and proposes mechanisms for the
implementation of intelligent manufacturing control modules.
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