MATE - Manufacturing on Actor Technology

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This project is part of a research project to evalutate self-organizing concepts in an industrial production planning and control application.

Short troduction into the topic of self-organizing production planning and controll and showcase of MATE. Comunity Standup of Akka.Net on youtube.com from 13.04.2021

#Project structure

• Mate

  Provides basic webinterface on ASP.Net for showcase purpose

• Mate.DataCore

  Provides database and initializer for basic schema and primary data, as it is build as "code-first" with Entity Framework

• Mate.Production.CLI

  Provides a small CLI that acts as headless runtime, used for remote deployment that register themself as worker for the Hangfire module.

• Mate.Production.Core

  Actor simulation runtime that can be initalized as self-irganized, distributed or central organized system to validate production planning algorithms using tertiary objectives

• Mate.Production.Immutables

  Immutable message definitions for the actor system.

• Mate.Test

  Provides online and offline test for the project. Be aware that some of them are not used as intended ;).

How to Install

Setup:

• Install Visual Studio (works with Visual Studio Community 2022 17.1) with default components and also make sure to have:
  • .NET 6.0 Runtime
  • F#
  • SQL Server Express 2019 LocalDB
  • ASP Web-Development

1. Clone repository
2. If localDb shall be used (which is the default case for Windows user) - set it via command line with: setx UseLocalDb true
3. Open Visual Studio and go to Mate/libman.json. Left click and "Restore Client-Side Libraries"
4. Done - Run the project

To reset database: run the unit test: Mate.Test.SimulationEnvironment.AgentSystem.ResetAllDatabase (Delete and Create all DBs)

Releated Papers

• 2018 - An Approach to a Self-organizing Production in Comparison to a Centrally Planned Production
• 2020 - SOBA: A Self-Organizing Bucket Architecture to Reduce Setup Times in an Event-Driven Production
• 2021 - Agent-based Decentral Production Planning and Control: A New Approach for Multi-resource Scheduling
• 2021 - Suitability of Self-Organization for Different Types of Production

Releated Projects

• Akka.Hive

  An Agent Simulation Framework based on Akka.Net

• SEED - Sintesizer for Enterprise Experimentation Data

  An Framework to populate Primary-Data, like Material, BOM, Operations. . . based on statistical indicators