Evolvable Assembly Systems

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Evolvable Assembly Systems A Methodology for enabling agentification of legacy equipment for EPS Master Thesis Contents Chapter 1 Introduction 3 Background 3 Need for New Concepts 7 Outline of the thesis 10 Limitations 12 Chapter 2 Evolvable Production Systems 13 Distributed Production system 13 EPS paradigm 16 Role of the EPS Methodology 17 Modularity 20 Evolvable production systems 22 Introduction to EPS 23 Concept of the EPS 28 Component and model of an evolvable production system 29 Evolvable Production life cycle 30 Distributed control system 36 Description of the DCS elements 41 The advantages of the DCS systems 43 Chapter 3 Legacy equipment for EPS 46 Boundary Condition and purposes 46 Intermodular receptacles of an EAS 47 The design of an EAS 51 Reference architecture (RA) 52 The ontology 55 Knowledge model 57 Developing an EAS module 59 Boundary condition 59 Equipments 60 Realization of the module 60 Skills 63 Chapter 4 Summary and Conclusion 65 Summary 65 Conclusion 66 Chapter 5 References 67 Introduction Background From some of the research carried out it indicates that in the industrial world it has evolved with realization of better and quality systems that are developed to meet the uprising demand and operate within the available resources. Every system developer is said to be after coming up with a quality system that meets the demand of the user and it will cut resources that will help in all the production haul (Lohse, Hirani & Ratchev, 2005). The production system is said to have developed in a number of stages and this has yielded from classic, to flexible and finally to the evolvable assembly. Classic automated assembly systems in their operation are designed so that they can assemble one kind of the product. In the 20th century there arose a demand of the market which made the

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