15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
A WAY TO IMPLEMENT SUPERVISORS FOR HOLONIC PRODUCTION UNITS
Edgar Chacón,*,1
* LaSDAI — Departamento de Computación. Escuela de Ingeniería de
Sistemas. Universidad de Los Andes. Mérida, Venezuela

Integration of the management of production systems has been considered one of the most relevant aspects in the automation process. In this work, authors proposes to use abstraction mechanisms of the dynamics of continuous systems, to represent the behavior of processes (hybrid systems), and in this way, to supervise whole process. This work describes the implementation of mechanisms to supervise and control the behavior of Autonomous Production Units in an integrated production systems, allowing the scheduling on-line of continuous production processes.
Keywords: Hierarchical Automation Systems, Holonic Systems, Process Automation, Object Oriented Systems

1Corresponding Address: Av. Tulio Febres, Fac. de Ingeniería, Mérida, Venezuela. e-mail echacon@ing.ula.ve
Session slot T-Mo-A16: The Practice of Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise I/Area code 1b : Enterprise Integration