Manufacturing Communication： DCOM-MMS-based Approach for Flexible Manufacturing System

A design approach of manufacturing communication is presented for flexible manufacturing system in this paper. The primary objective aims at making the flexible manufacturing ,control system provided with interoperability and reconfigurability. Based on describing manufacturing message specification （MMS） and distributed component object model （DCOM）, a client/server manufacturing communication model is built with MMS standard and DCOM middleware, and the communication interfaces between MMS client and MMS server are designed with Microsoft interface definition language （MIDL） and abstract syntax notation one （ASN. 1） of MMS services. As a result, DCOM and MMS integration leads to such client/ server communication capabilities independent of different operating systems and manufacturing devices in flexible manufacturing automation environment. Finally, to verify the new design approach, a prototype system of robot control system has been implemented in MS 2000 Server/Professional Operating System and VC ＋ ＋ 6.0 Developer Environments.     

Component-based Control Software Design for Flexible Manufacturing System

A new method that designs and implements thecomponent-based distributed & hierarchical flexiblemanufacturing control software is described with acomponent concept in this paper. The proposed methodtakes aim at improving the flexibility and reliability ofthe control system On the basis of describing theconcepts of component-based software and thedistributed object technology, the architecture of the     

Design and Implementation of Distributed Numerical Control in Flexible Manufacturing System

To monitor, control and manage the work process of computer numerical control machine tools in a flexible manufacturing system (FMS) effectively, the distributed numerical coutrol (distributed-NC) software should be innovated with the characteristics of modularization and reconfiguration. In this paper, firstly, distributed-NC functions in the FMS environment are described. Then, we present a design and development method of the real time distributed-NC that is on the basis of the re-coufigurable software and hardware platform and with an object-oriented model concept. Finally, to verify the proposed method, the distributed-NC software has been implemented in VC++ 6.0 and has been tested in connection with the different physical flexible manufacturing shops.