An multi-agent system for distributed manufacturing resource integration

The outsourced manufacturing model has become more and more popular over the past years,and the manufacturing enterprise must reduce the lead time and cost in product developing in order to stand competitive in such an changing and dynamic market opportunity.It's necessary for the enterprise to make the use of manufacturing resources distributed around the word through computer networks.This paper proposes a Multi-Agent system based framework for manufacturing resource integration,in order to realize the efficient deployment and use of resource.The framework can be used as platform for enterprise integration and is also a new kind of networked application service provider.