A study on self-reconfiguration of MIS in knowledgeable manufacturing system

This paper deals with a new approach to the self-reconfiguration of MIS (management information system) in the knowledgeable manufacturing system (KMS), which is based on knowledge the Mesh and Agent Mesh. To this end, concepts of the knowledge mesh (K-M) and agent mesh (A-M) are proposed as well as a new K-M & A-M-based approach to knowledge representation for MIS. Meanwhile, the K-Ms are stored in the knowledge mesh database. On the basis of this representation and the K-M operations, K-Ms which represent corresponding MISs are reconfigured. Then, for the automatic construction of reconfigured MIS, management models are made into components in the framework of NET. And then, a new management information system is reconfigured through automatic software construction program. The successful run of the reconfigured system fully verified the feasibility and validity of the method for the self-reconfiguration of MIS in the knowledgeable manufacturing system.