A Recursive Framework for Manufacturing Control

Paper i proceeding, 2009

The CHAMP (Chalmers Architecture and Methodology for Flexible Production) system is a general control system for manufacturing that can be configured for arbitrary production. The same system can be used recursive at different levels of the production. The system consists of producers that can perform operations on products and movers that can move products between producers. Each product is described by a number of operations that are mapped to global operations in the database. Thus a flexible production can be designed only by defining the product recipes and the factory layout.