Selbstorganisierende Produktion mit verteilter Intelligenz: Intelligente Werkstücke steuern ihren Weg durch die Fertigung

Today's technologies offer automatic identification and information storage for objects. In the future, objects in the production area will be equipped with embedded intelligence. Thus these objects will be able to coordinate and control their production sequence. Instead of the existing central planning and control such a product-controlled manufacturing uses a multi-agent system with the possibilities of auctions by negotiations as a means for self-organization. The article provides an overview of the approaches pursued in the scientific pre-project "Self-organizing Production - Sopro". Furthermore, it reveals the software agents for negotiations between jobs and resources for the definition of the processing order implemented on the Process-eGrains as micro systems