Cell Controller Architecture in Agile Manufacturing

The characteristics of cell controller in agile manufacturing is illustrated. Using object oriented method the manufacturing system is abstracted and generalized, the function model and data model of the cell controller are established. A modified hierarchical control architecture of the cell controller is proposed, a software development platform for the cell controller based on CORBA is built. This cell controller architecture is independent of the practical production processes, the manufacturing environments and computer systems. It is robust, It can be easily reconstructed,and can cooperate and coordinate with the outside. The architecture meets the requirements of agile manufacturing on cell controller.