Developing of Scheduling Holons and WIP Holons

• Main Authors: Chih-Feng Chang, 張志峰
• Other Authors: Fan-Tien Cheng
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2000
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/71003665575310288638

碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 製造工程研究所 === 88 === As the demand for new products to have various functions increases and only small quantity of products are required, also as the competition pressure continues to grow, the manufacturing industry needs a highly flexible manufacturing system to cope with the complicated manufacturing environment. To meet the above requirements, we adopt the concepts that were derived from the study of social organizations and living organisms, and translate them into a set of appropriate concepts, such as Holon and Holarchy, for manufacturing industries. Holon and Holarchy possess the properties of intelligence, autonomy, cooperation, reconfigurability, and extensibility. Besides, the systems shall also possess the properties of security certification and error recovery. Based on these properties, in this project, a systematic approach is proposed to develop a Holonic Manufacturing Execution System (HMES) for semiconductor industry. This systematic approach is started with system analysis by collecting domain requirements and analyzing domain knowledge. Then the HMES Holarchy is designed by the process of constructing abstract object model based on domain knowledge, partitioning application domain into functional Holons, identifying generic parts among functional Holons; developing the Generic Holon, defining Holarchy messages, define Holarchy framework of HMES, and finally designing functional Holons based on the Generic Holon. This project adopts the technologies of distributed object-oriented approach with CORBA infrastructure, N-tier client/server architecture, knowledge base, and data warehousing to develop the entire Holonic Manufacturing Execution System. Finally, we demonstrate the feasibility and capability of HMES by designing and implementing the Scheduling Holon and WIP Holon.