Abstract Manufacturers are poorly equipped to manage product transition scenarios, when moving from one product to another. Most tools consider a mature system, yet during transition and ramp up disturbances and inefficiency are common. The traditional methods, using centralised planning and control structures are too rigid and often resort to simple dispatch heuristics in this highly dynamic environment. Distributed systems have been proposed to leverage their self-organising and flexible traits to manage highly volatile and complex scenarios. Anarchic manufacturing, a free market based distributed planning and control system, delegates decision-making authority and autonomy to system elements at the lowest level; this system has previously been shown to manage job and flowshop style problems. The system has been adapted to use a dynamic batching mechanism, where jobs cooperate to benefit from economies of scale. The batch enables a direct economic viability assessment within the free market architecture, whether an individual machine should changeover production to another product type. This profitability assessment considers the overall system state and an agent’s individual circumstance, which in turn reduces system myopia. Four experiments, including a real-world automotive case study, evaluate the anarchic manufacturing system against two centralised systems, using three different ramp-up curves. Although not always best performing against centralised systems, the anarchic manufacturing system is shown to manage transition scenarios effectively, displaying self-organising and flexible characteristics. The hierarchical system was shown to be impeded by its simplifying structure, as a result of structural rigidity.

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无政府主义制造：产品转型的分布式控制

摘要 制造商在从一种产品转移到另一种产品时管理产品转换场景的能力很差。大多数工具都考虑一个成熟的系统，但在过渡和加速期间，干扰和效率低下是很常见的。使用集中式规划和控制结构的传统方法过于僵化，并且在这种高度动态的环境中往往诉诸简单的调度启发式方法。分布式系统已被提议利用其自组织和灵活的特性来管理高度不稳定和复杂的场景。无政府制造，一种基于自由市场的分布式规划和控制系统，将决策权和自主权下放给最底层的系统元素；该系统以前已被证明可以管理工作和流水车间风格的问题。该系统已适应使用动态批处理机制，工作协作以从规模经济中受益。该批次可以在自由市场架构内进行直接的经济可行性评估，确定单个机器是否应将生产转换为另一种产品类型。这种盈利能力评估考虑了整个系统状态和代理的个人情况，从而减少了系统近视。四个实验，包括一个真实世界的汽车案例研究，使用三个不同的上升曲线，针对两个集中式系统评估无政府主义制造系统。尽管相对于集中式系统并不总是表现最佳，但无政府状态的制造系统被证明可以有效地管理过渡场景，显示出自组织和灵活的特性。