Production planning for collaborating resources in cyber-physical production systems

Abstract The increasing demand of flexibility in cyber-physical production systems results from a growing number of product variants and customer specific products. Resources, like robots and humans, offer different skills modelled on the production planning level. Skill based task allocation requires normally that a task is executed by one resource providing all necessary skills for this task. This paper describes an approach in production planning how teams of several resources proposing diverse skills can be combined in order to accomplish a task in collaboration. The composition of the team aims at combining resources with complementary and supportive skills.