Guidelines and recommendations for reconfigurability mechanisms for machinery and robots

Harmonization and development of the simulation control logic including the integration of all models and routines into one consistent simulation environment. This task will develop mechanisms for the reconfigurability at the shop-floor level, namely the machinery and robotics that compose it. This reconfiguration derives from the need to optimize the production of the manufacturing orders, where, the agent-based planning and scheduling tools, developed in T4.1 and T.4.2, act as a major start event input of the reconfiguration procedure since deviations from initial plans, i.e. tactical and operational decision changes, will be enhanced and their outcome more potentiated if a structural re-organization happens alongside at the shop-floor. The work that has been developed in the IDEAS project regarding agent-based reconfigurability will be applied in this task.