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Publication summary
Author(s): Charles McLean and Peter Brown
Publication date: July 1987
Citation: Charles McLean and Peter Brown: "The Architecture of the NBS Factory Automation Research Testbed," Proceedings of the 10th IPAC World Congress, July, 1987.
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Abstract:
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A small batch manufacturing system testbed, currently under
construction at the U.S. 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.
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 discusses the AMRF factory
architecture in terms of five major groups of subsystmes: User Data
Interface Devices, Hierarchical Manufacturing Management, Network
Communications, Distributed Data Administration, and Shop Floor
Hardware. Fundamental concepts and implementation architecture is
presented for each group of subsystems.
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