Table 1: Entities, state variables, and scales 2.1 Scales In the below table we summarize entities, state variables and scales: Through this paper, visual material was created at various stages of the prototype development illustrating implementation progress. The three NetLogo interconnected robotic factory models participating in the prototype can also run outside of the data platform environment of InterSystems IRIS – thus preserving prototype’s agent-based simulation functionality but losing in-platform orchestration controls as well as cluster-level descriptive and predictive analytics.įigure 1: Three NetLogo interconnected robotic factory models (adaptation of U. In this text, we focus on the effects from orchestrating agent-based factory cluster simulation via an all-embracing universal data platform. Again, for research on the effects from various in-platform implementations of factory cluster simulation, we would refer reader to appropriate studies. The advantages of in-platform implementation of factory cluster simulations have been materialized more recently due to the evolution of computers and software making feasible parallel computations, near-real-time integration exchanges and seamless use of a full spectrum of modeling toolsets (e.g., Ng et al., 2011 ). In this text, we focus on functional benefits from doing factory cluster simulation using agent-based approach. For research on the effects from various configurations of factory clusters, we would refer the reader to those studies. The high potential that inter-factory linkages simulation has in integrated production network setting, was established in numerous academic and applied studies (e.g., Ferdows and Carabetta, 2006 ) since long ago. For the underlying prototype, NetLogo suite was used to do factory agent-based simulation (re-using “Robotic Factory” model ) while InterSystems IRIS data platform was used for NetLogo orchestration and factory/cluster end-to-end simulation. In this paper we prototype and explore how multiple agent-based models of robotic factories connected to other robotic factories (represented by their respective models) can be orchestrated using an all-purpose data platform – thereby simulating descriptive and predictive properties of a group of factories (a factory cluster). * In-Platform Agent-Based Simulation of a Connected Factory Cluster 1. Banner photo background credit: Victor Matskevich
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