Implementation of human-system interface for manufacturing organizations

Abstract

In the paper current results of a project devoted to the development of a software and hardware platform for a holonic based Intelligent Manufacturing System dedicated to small and medium metal component production companies are presented. Recent trends in factory automation which create a promising perspective for industrial implementations of Intelligent Manufacturing Systems including extended Human-System Interfaces, are briefly discussed. It was shown that modern factory automation controllers facilitate implementations of extended Human-System Interface as well as Human-Machine Interface and enable the integration of human operators and manufacturing resources into an Intelligent Manufacturing System. In the paper two industrial testbeds used in daily production processes in two different companies are described and future directions of the system development are discussed. © 2012 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.