Towards the design of autonomic nervousness handling in holonic manufacturing execution systems

Abstract

Manufacturing control systems that are built along the Holonic Manufacturing Execution Systems (HMES) approach, are able to generate short-term forecasts (resource loads and order routings). However, the reliability of these forecasts has to be balanced against the reactivity of the system in coping with the changes and disturbances that happen in the manufacturing environment. These phenomena are captured in so-called system nervousness issues. This paper discusses the system nervousness issues and how to handle them.