Distributed Simulation Using Agents for the Internet of Things and the Factory of the Future

Basingab, Mohammed; Nagadi, Khalid; Rahal, Ahmad; Bukhari, Hatim; Alasim, Fahad

doi:10.3390/info11100458

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Distributed Simulation Using Agents for the Internet of Things and the Factory of the Future

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Mohammed Basingab

^1,*

,

Khalid Nagadi

²,

Ahmad Rahal

³,

Hatim Bukhari

² and

Fahad Alasim

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Department of Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia

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Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Jeddah, Jeddah 23218, Saudi Arabia

³

College of Business, University of Arkansas, Fort Smith, AR 72904, USA

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Department of Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia

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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

Information 2020, 11(10), 458; https://doi.org/10.3390/info11100458

Submission received: 22 August 2020 / Revised: 14 September 2020 / Accepted: 21 September 2020 / Published: 24 September 2020

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Distributed Simulation 2020)

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The adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) and its related technologies has transformed the manufacturing industry and has significantly changed the traditional linear manufacturing supply chains into dynamic and interconnected systems. However, the lack of an approach to assess the economic feasibility and return uncertainties of an IoT system implementation, is blamed as the culprit for hindering its adoption rate. Using two distinctive case studies, this research investigates the use of distributed simulation of agent-based model (ABM) to address such gap in the literature. The first involves the economic feasibility of an IoT implementation in a very large retail warehouse facility, while the second case study proposes a framework able to generate and assess ideal or near-ideal manufacturing configurations and capabilities, and in establishing appropriate information messaging protocols between the various system components by using ABM in distributed simulation.

Keywords: Internet of Things (IoT); distributed simulation; agent-based model; manufacturing industry

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Basingab, M.; Nagadi, K.; Rahal, A.; Bukhari, H.; Alasim, F. Distributed Simulation Using Agents for the Internet of Things and the Factory of the Future. Information 2020, 11, 458. https://doi.org/10.3390/info11100458

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Basingab M, Nagadi K, Rahal A, Bukhari H, Alasim F. Distributed Simulation Using Agents for the Internet of Things and the Factory of the Future. Information. 2020; 11(10):458. https://doi.org/10.3390/info11100458

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Basingab, Mohammed, Khalid Nagadi, Ahmad Rahal, Hatim Bukhari, and Fahad Alasim. 2020. "Distributed Simulation Using Agents for the Internet of Things and the Factory of the Future" Information 11, no. 10: 458. https://doi.org/10.3390/info11100458

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Basingab, M., Nagadi, K., Rahal, A., Bukhari, H., & Alasim, F. (2020). Distributed Simulation Using Agents for the Internet of Things and the Factory of the Future. Information, 11(10), 458. https://doi.org/10.3390/info11100458

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