TY - CHAP A1 - Minhas, Sarfraz Ul-Haque A1 - Kretzschmann, Ralf A1 - Vargas, Veronica A1 - Berger, Ulrich ED - Edwards, Kasper ED - Blecker, Thorsten ED - Salvador, Fabrizio ED - Hvam, Lars ED - Friedrich, Gerhard T1 - An approach for the real time intelligent production control to fulfill mass customization requirements T2 - Mass Customization Services N2 - The automotive industry is distinguished by regionalization and mass customization of products. As a consequence, the diversity of products will increase and the lot sizes will decrease. Thus more product types have to be handled along the process chain and common production paradigms will fail. Hence, Rapid Manufacturing (RM) will be used for manufacturing small individual lot sizes. Nevertheless, new solution for joining and assembling these components are needed. The state of the art production control solutions exhibit several disadvantages while responding mass customization. A comprehensive and real time intelligent production control and monitoring system can overcome these limitations which will be the totality of intelligent production control and will be based on intelligent soft computing algorithms and smart intelligent peripheral devices. The concept is based on three interlinked main modules: a technology data catalogue (TDC) to access, share, process and structure relevant engineering data, an automated scheduling processor (ASP) based on graph theory to get an optimized and adaptable work plan using feature technology and a central programmable automation controller (PAC) for real-time sensor/actor communication. The processes will be controlled through PAC and influenced by humans through scalable human machine interfaces. The PAC and its supported software’s widespread functionality for real time applications and compatibility and flexibility with the conventional programming languages will enable in developing customized palette of functions and tools for scalable level of control solutions. It will have a widespread accessibility as it will influence the execution of robot programs after pre-processing the data coming from various peripheral devices and calculating new robot paths by segmentation of detected curves and paths corresponding to the process planning information via one interface. The human machine communication will be based on the ontological approach as a natural language interaction system for filtering and translating into machine command. The entire concept will be demonstrated in a laboratory set-up with distinct machining, assembly and joining processes and will be experimentally validated in European research and development projects. KW - Intelligent Production Control, Knowledge Driven System, Human Machine Interface, Dynamic Navigation, Technology Data Catalogue, Ontology, Mass Customization Y1 - 2008 SN - 978-87-90-855-12-3 SP - 86 EP - 101 PB - Vesterkopi Copenhagen Denmark CY - Copenhagen, Denmark ER -