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Advances in Computers and Information in Engineering Research, Volume 1Available to Purchase
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John G. Michopoulos
John G. Michopoulos
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Christiaan J.J. Paredis
Christiaan J.J. Paredis
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David W. Rosen
David W. Rosen
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Judy M. Vance
Judy M. Vance
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ISBN:
9780791860328
No. of Pages:
616
Publisher:
ASME Press
Publication date:
2014

The evolution of automated manufacturing systems from fixed automation to flexible and programmable automation is driven by the need for achieving higher degrees of flexibility and adaptability while meeting the productivity requirements. Although flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) and, more recently, reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMS) [1] [2] successfully enabled flexible automation at the mechanical and mechatronics levels, they still suffer from rigidity at the informatics level [3] [4]. Heavy reliance on humans for off-line programming hampers the abilities of the advanced production systems to respond autonomously to changes in work orders and reconfigure appropriately based on the available manufacturing resources. Ideally, automated manufacturing systems should obtain the necessary cognitive capabilities such as learning, reasoning, and adapting to changes in order to minimize their dependencies, to the extent possible, on human agents for hardwiring the program of instructions [5] [6]. In particular, dynamic configuration of new manufacturing cells or retrofitting the existing ones in an autonomous fashion should be supported by the underlying computational models of next generation manufacturing systems.

17.1 Introduction
17.2 What is Manufacturing Capability Model?
17.3 Capability Models for the Cognitive Machine Shop
17.4 Related Works
17.5 Research Approach
17.6 Manufacturing Service Description Language (MSDL)
17.7 MSDL Use Cases
17.8 Research Roadmap
17.9 Conclusions and Outlook
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