Agent Oriented Construction of a Digital Factory for Validation of a Production Scenario

At present, there are various types of manufacturing systems from the traditional centralized system to the autonomous distributed system which has high flexibly for changes in the kinds and/or amounts of products. To support production planning for such a variety and, as a result, to prepare an adequate production scenario which can be well reviewed not only from an economical but also from an environmental view, IT support tools are necessary. In this paper, an agent oriented digital factory is proposed as an IT support tool for production planning. A trial implementation of the digital factory is also reported.