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Self Organizing Production Processes (SOPP) are an alternative to the job shop control, i.e. they follow the time- and capacity management of PPS systems. The basic idea with the SOPPs is to regard the units involved in the production process as autonomously acting agents that compete with each other for orders that are to be processed. The objectve of each unit is to maximize the added value by minimizing processing time, down times, stores etc. The communication between the single units, required for the organization of the production process, is managed by a blackboard like agent, called the broker. In order to fit to this principle of process organization, a production process must be based on flexible manufacturing cells having partly identical functions thus creating a parallel manufacturing environment.
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Dilger, W., Kassel, S. (1993). A distributed AI system for job shop control. In: Mařík, V., Lažanský, J., Wagner, R.R. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 720. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57234-1_58
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