- Future general models of manufacturing systems
Examples for that theme are the proposals 'agile manufacturing`, 'fractual factory`, 'bionic manufacturing`, 'holistic enterprise integration`, etc.
The Bionic Manufacturing Systems (BMS) have developed under the biology ideas and concepts, and assume that the manufacturing companies can be built upon open, autonomous, co-operative and adaptative entities, which can evolve. The BMS translates to manufacturing systems the structure and organisation behaviour of the living beings, defining a parallelism between biologic systems and manufacturing systems.
