The goal of the research in the manufacturing scenario is to extract information about manufacturing facilities in a way that allows improved decision support for planning of operations and maintenance of manufacturing facilities. This involves the identification, extraction and fusion of relevant information from the manufacturing system and/or simulation, and other sources. In some situations, more or less automatic extraction and fusion of information is of interest.
A key element in the proposed “Virtual Manufacturing System” (VMS) solution is the fusion of information regarding the system’s history and previous operation (stored in databases), the current status (obtained through monitoring), and information regarding the future (such as expected trends and events or as explored through so-called virtual scenarios during simulation runs). One challenge is to extract relevant information to be stored for future use. Another is the issue of automatic extraction and fusion of relevant information for simulation runs that will depend on the type of decision that one wants the system to support.
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