【英文】世界计算机大会论文集 (37).pdf

The Application of Holonic Manufacturing Paradigm
to the Virtual Enterprise Control
Gou Hongmei, Huang Biqing, Liu Wenhuang, Ren Shouju and Li Yu
The State CIMS ERC, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China
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Abstract Nowadays, the virtual enterprise is considered to be
Holonic manufacturing is a highly distributed one of the most promising paradigms for future
controlling paradigm based on a kind of autonomous enterprises.
and cooperative entity – holon. It can both guarantee Meanwhile, great pressures from the market,
performance stability, predictability and global technology and society require the manufacturing to
optimization of the hierarchical control, and provide be flexible and adaptive enough. Accordingly,
flexibility and adaptability of the heterarchical control. manufacturing control systems are required to be
A Virtual Enterprise (VE) is a temporary coalition petent for dealing with various changes and
distributed, autonomous and cooperative member disturbances effectively and efficiently. However, the
enterprises and it’anizational architecture is of traditional design approach of manufacturing control
typical holonic feature. Therefore, we develop studies systems is a hierarchical one. It adopts the top-down
on the application of holonic manufacturing paradigm method and strictly defines