%0 Journal Article %T An Agent-based Manufacturing Management System for Production and Logistics within Cross-Company Regional and National Production Networks %A S. Heinrich %A H. Durr %A T. Hanel %A J. Lassig %J International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems %D 2008 %I InTech %X The goal is the development of a simultaneous, dynamic, technological as well as logistical real-time planning and an organizational control of the production by the production units themselves, working in the production network under the use of Multi-Agent-Technology. The design of the multi-agent-based manufacturing management system, the models of the single agents, algorithms for the agent-based, decentralized dispatching of orders, strategies and data management concepts as well as their integration into the SCM, basing on the solution described, will be explained in the following. %U http://www.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/an_agent-based_manufacturing_management_system_for_production_and_logistics_within_cross-company_reg