Report on Workshop: Planning the Future of Agent Simulation

In May 2019, a workshop on principled development of future agent-based simulations was held at Keele University. Participants spanned companies and academia, and a range of domains of interest, as well as participant career stages. This report summarizes the discussions and main outcomes from this workshop.

Integrated Technology Based on Resource and Environment Attributes for Workshop Planning and Production Operation

In this paper, the integrated technology based on resource and environment attributes is presented for the workshop planning and production operation. Applying this integrated technology, a demonstration workshop of thermoelectrical valve manufacturer has been constructed to meet the demands of enterprise development. On a principle of green planning, the workshop structure and partition function, the devices layout and the scheduling mode aiming at the minimum energy consumption and noise yield are rebuilt on the base of the present manufacturing process and devices in a representative manufacturer. In this research work, the actual production data of the manufacturer is gathered, arranged, formatted and quantified to build a resource and environment attribute database for the conventional manufacturing process. The key of the integrated technology is to model the full life cycle production for the typical products in the workshop. Via the attribute analysis of the resource consumptions and environment impacts, some adaptive processes of green manufacturing and several prototypes of process device are offered for the respective process of the real production in the workshop. The integrated technology for the workshop planning and production operation is entirely realized and an environmental benefit is gained remarkably.