The elaboration of a manufacturing flow connectivity model, based on Multi Agent System

Abstract

Nowadays, manufacturing industries are operating in a highly complex and unforeseeable economic context. Therefore, they tend, by necessity toward short term inter-firms coordination. Thus, found increasingly located at the intersection of corporate networks, to overcome their inability to quickly meet the needs of clients, facing thereby several complications related to the coordination between heterogeneous entities. Managing the flow of a network, made up of different links became a major challenge. The appeals to decision support tools and simulation are wished all the more to correlate the dynamics of the system and the targeted objectives, to assess the configurations effectiveness. Thus, enhance their performance. The aim of this paper was to establish a model of the industrial flow connectivity; Afterward, we’ve detailed a network configuration model based on the multi-agents systems, to study the interactions between all the actors and give a more realistic vision onto manufacturing coordination in the supply chain.