Adaptive Dynamic Scheduling in Agent Based Manufacturing Environment: A Budget Approach

The competition environment is characterized by significant market shifting, rapid development and introduction new technologies and global competition with the focus towards customer need. In order to play in such an environment, enterprises need to build reactive and agile manufacturing systems capable of adapting to the variable conditions (internal or external) of the manufacturing systems. Agent based manufacturing systems have demonstrated their ability to be very agile and reactive. The focus of this paper is on the decision-making strategies in order to keep an adequate level of system performance. This paper proposes an innovative decision making strategy for autonomous agents in a cellular manufacturing environment by a budget assigned to each part in order to purchase a manufacturing cell services. The budget manages as a market like approach among agents to coordination the multi agent system.