Holonic Architecture for a Multiagent-Based Simulation Tool

In the last few years Holonic Manufacturing Systems (HMS) have been used to improve some areas such as control systems of manufacturing systems, monitoring and diagnosis systems, and Computer Integrated Manufacturing architectures. This paper presents an application of the holonic approach together with the Multi-agent Systems (MAS) to develop a Simulation Tool for manufacturing systems. The architecture for this tool is related to functionalities that support the Manufacturing Model created by the User. This proposal allows the User to take advantage of these two approaches to simulate a manufacturing environment according to the manufacturing requirements.