LS/AMC – Living Systems^® Autonomic Machine Control

LS/AMC is Whitestein Technologies’ autonomic machine control solution for tapping the full potential of modular production lines. LS/AMC introduces self-managed flexibility to the control of your production equipment today and enables new degrees of freedom to dynamically adapt your operations in the future

Features and benefits

The centralized, 'hardwired' design of traditional control software imposes limits on successfully dealing with constantly changing order specifications and boundary conditions. We are offering a novel approach to the development and operation of control software, such that it is capable of managing modular machines dynamically and with minimal manual intervention.

With LS/AMC, Whitestein Technologies is pioneering a new generation of machine control software that is engineered with autonomous, self-managing software agents. The solution offers automatic equipment adaptation, dynamic performance optimization, robust failure resistance, flexible integration capabilities and a modern user interface.

LS/AMC increases reactivity, efficiency and performance

LS/AMC minimizes the complexity of developing, operating and maintaining modular machines and production lines – without reducing the degrees of freedom for your future application scenarios.

Our autonomic control software equips machine modules and orders with the ability to communicate and coordinate toward business goals. For example, this makes it possible to optimize machine performance toward higher throughput and improved resource-efficiency in parallel, which entails a sensible reconciliation of conflicting constraints.

To that end, LS/AMC enables a modular system to adapt to current and expected conditions in real-time, which can include dynamically planning with new and changed orders to minimize conflicts or autonomously adapting to a changed module setup due to maintenance or new module installation.

LS/AMC offers the full functionality of a comprehensive solution and is individually customized to the requirements of the specific deployment scenario.

Features and benefits of LS/AMC

• Equips every machine module with autonomic self-management abilities to optimize its own operation in coordination with other module and order agents
• Equips orders with self-controlling abilities and thus enables dynamic optimization even for batch sizes of 1
• Reconfigures modular machine setups without restart to accommodate changes in orders, modules, optimization targets
• Supports scenario planning, quality control and personnel training with comprehensive simulation mode
• Resolves many bottlenecks and failures autonomously to sensibly minimize the need for human intervention
• Seamlessly integrates into existing environments (e.g., CANopen standard interface) and ERP-software
• Offers detailed logging facilities and remote administration to improve maintenance
• Scales virtually unlimited due to flexible agent-based architecture