کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
508982 865468 2014 9 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
A multi-agent system for minimizing energy costs in cement production
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
یک سیستم چند منظوره برای به حداقل رساندن هزینه های انرژی در تولید سیمان
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه مهندسی کامپیوتر نرم افزارهای علوم کامپیوتر
چکیده انگلیسی


• A multi-agent system for cost-effective cement production planning is discussed.
• Agents employed in sales are implemented as mobile autonomous software entities.
• The system was actively used inside one of the leading cement plants in Turkey.
• Evaluation showed that the proposed system caused significant energy cost saving.
• Workers in the planning department saved approximately 75% of their working hour.

A cement production planning system is expected to minimize energy costs. Further, such a system needs to be as autonomous as possible to decrease time loss during the communication between related departments of the plant. Hence, in this paper, we present a multi-agent system (MAS) in which software agents work collaboratively in order to assist production, planning and sales departments of a cement plant for the generation of cost-effective cement production plans. Implemented system was deployed and actively used inside one of the plants of a leading cement company in Turkey. Evaluation result shows that the utilization of the proposed system caused a significant energy cost saving. Moreover, workers in the planning department of the cement plant saved approximately 75% of their working hour by using the system. Total workload of the employees (including all departments) decreased to its half.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Computers in Industry - Volume 65, Issue 7, September 2014, Pages 1076–1084
نویسندگان
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