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Production Management Methods
Published in Susmita Bandyopadhyay, Production and Operations Analysis, 2019
Holon is a type of intelligent, autonomous, cooperative agents. Holonic manufacturing is a type of manufacturing which uses holons. Holon was proposed during the period 1992–1994. During this period, Arthur Koestler developed the basic concepts of Holonic manufacturing system. Holon, after some years, with the help of latest Artificial Intelligence technology evolved to more efficient agents. Since holons are actually agents thus the properties of holons are similar to those for agents as shown below: Holons are autonomousHolons can cooperate with each otherHolons can follow a set of rules called holarchy in order to achieve particular manufacturing goals
Concurrent Engineering Design and Manufacturing
Published in Weiming Shen, Douglas H. Norrie, Jean-Paul A. Barthès, Multi-Agent Systems for Concurrent Intelligent Design and Manufacturing, 2019
Weiming Shen, Douglas H. Norrie, Jean-Paul A. Barthes
The HMS concept was proposed in 1994 by the HMS consortium as a test case under the international Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS) Research Program (Hayashi 1993). “Holon” is a word coined by combining ‘holos’ (the whole) and ‘on’ (a particle) following Koestler (1967). Key holonic concepts (Christensen, 1994) already developed by the HMS Consortium include: - Holon: An autonomous and cooperative building block of a manufacturing system for transforming, transporting, storing and/or validating information and physical objects. The holon consists of an information processing part and often a physical processing part. A holon can form part of another holon.- Holarchy: A system of holons which can cooperate to achieve a goal or objective. The holarchy defines the basic rules for cooperation of the holons and thereby limits their autonomy.- Holonic Manufacturing System (HMS): A holarchy which integrates the entire range of manufacturing activities from order booking through design, production and marketing to realize the agile manufacturing enterprise.
Integral sustainable design
Published in Rob Fleming, Saglinda H Roberts, Sustainable Design for the Built Environment, 2019
Rob Fleming, Saglinda H Roberts
Another fundamental principle in integral theory is viewing all entities as holons. “Holon” is the term and concept that Wilber (1977) borrowed from the writings of Arthur Koestler. A holon is “… an identifiable part of a system that has a unique identity yet is made up of subordinate parts and in turn is part of a larger whole” (www.integralworld.net/edwards13.html). A simple example is the human body. A person is considered a whole or its own entity, yet the human body is made up of many parts and organs. An organ, like your heart, is considered a unique and whole entity, but is composed of four chambers, tissue, and other things. And yet you as a person are also a small part of the group of people that you associate with, or the whole population of the world. This is one of the underlying principles of systems thinking and can help us understand the interconnectedness of all things. It also reinforces the practice of thinking across scales as an essential approach to sustainable design.
Evaluation of JADE multi-agent system and Erlang holonic control implementations for a manufacturing cell
Published in International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 2019
Holonic systems have become a popular approach for addressing the challenges of modern manufacturing systems: short lead times for the introduction of new products into the system; producing a larger number of product variants and handling fluctuating production volumes (Bi et al. 2008). The term holon comes from the Greek words ‘holos’ (meaning ‘the whole’) and ‘on’ (meaning ‘the particle’) (Koestler 1967). Holons are ‘any component of a complex system that, even when contributing to the function of the system as a whole, demonstrates autonomous, stable and self-contained behaviour or function’ (Paolucci and Sacile 2005). When this concept is applied to manufacturing systems, holons are autonomous and cooperative building blocks for transforming, transporting, storing or validating the information of physical objects. A Holonic Manufacturing System (HMS) is a system of holons that can cooperate to integrate the entire range of manufacturing activities (Paolucci and Sacile 2005).
Evaluation criteria for holonic control implementations in manufacturing systems
Published in International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 2019
Holonic control architectures have proven well suited to implement highly reconfigurable and robust control in RMSs and CPPSs. Koestler (1967) first introduced the term holon – a combination of the Greek words ‘holos’ (meaning ‘the whole’) and ‘on’ (meaning ‘the particle’). Holons can be understood as components of a complex system that demonstrate autonomous, stable and self-contained behaviour, while contributing to the behaviour of the system as a whole (Paolucci and Sacile 2005). In the context of manufacturing systems, a holon can be generally defined as an autonomous and cooperative building block for transforming, transporting, storing and/or validating information and physical objects (Van Brussel et al. 1998). A holonic manufacturing system (HMS) then constitutes an integration of manufacturing activities by means of a system of cooperative holons (Christensen 1994).
A notification-oriented solution for data-intensive enterprise information systems – A cloud manufacturing case
Published in Enterprise Information Systems, 2018
Yongxin Liao, Hervé Panetto, Paulo C. Stadzisz, Jean M. Simão
The Holonic Manufacturing Systems (HMS) term is emerged from the proper neologism ‘holon’. The word ‘holon’ was originally proposed by Arthur Koestler in his book <The Ghost in the Machine> (Koestler 1967). It is a combination of the word ‘holos’ (a Greek word that means ‘whole’) and the suffix ‘on’ (that suggests ‘particle’ or ‘part’). It refers to the hybrid nature of elements (‘whole’ and ‘parts’) in the existing systems, namely the social and biological ones. From the observer’s point of view, on the one hand, holons can be considered as wholes, because they include other existing holons as their parts. On the other hand, they can also be considered as parts, since each holon has the possibility to be a part of the other new holons. Therefore, they are neither made up of a strict hierarchy nor a strict heterarchy, but a ‘holarchy’ as defined in the Arthur Koestler’s book (Koestler 1967).