A framework for planning and scheduling shop floor logistics via cloud-edge collaboration

Abstract

Under the autonomous production mode, the production and operation process of smart shop-floor is operated by manufacturing units themselves. This paper describes a new framework for the order-driven products processing based on cloud-edge collaboration, in which the production-logistics tasks are planned and scheduled by the manufacturing resources at the bottom of smart shop-floor. The key enabled technologies and roadmap are further pointed out. The core idea of autonomous production mode is the autonomous communication and collaboration through an industrial network between all physical resources during production in a shop-floor. It is intended to serve as a reference for the managers while handling the flexible production organization and management based on the dynamic customer requirements.