Go-green manufacturing holons: a step towards sustainable manufacturing operations control

Despite their potential benefits in the context of sustainable manufacturing operations, holonic and multi-agent architectures are still not designed methodologically to support this major societal and environmental stake. To fill the gap, the generic concept of go-green manufacturing holon is proposed. The idea is to incite researchers to develop sustainability-oriented manufacturing operations control architectures, being holonic or multi-agents, and to provide them with a usable generic concept easy to appropriate, particularize and implement. An illustration of the concept is proposed as well as its widening in the context of circular economy.Trentesaux, D.; Giret Boggino, AS. (2015). Go-green manufacturing holons: a step towards sustainable manufacturing operations control. Manufacturing letters. 5:29-33. doi:10.1016/j.mfglet.2015.07.0032933