*3.2. Application to the Zilina Intelligent Manufacturing System*

The question involved was applied to the Zilina Intelligent Manufacturing System (ZIMS), whose structure is illustrated in Figure 9. The Zilina Intelligent Manufacturing System (ZIMS) has been built to faithfully represent advanced manufacturing systems with its practical design, while also enabling experimentation and further research in the field of intelligent manufacturing systems. The whole concept of ZIMS was designed as a holistic system. Individual holons represent the main subsystems and elements of advanced business systems. As part of the simulation application design, a control system based on simulations, emulations and metamodelling was applied.

**Figure 9.** Structure of the Zilina Intelligent Manufacturing System (ZIMS) laboratory.

The logic of a more detailed subdivision of the holons is shown in Figure 10, in which the modelling and simulation are under holon manufacturing.

**Figure 10.** A more detailed breakdown of the holons of the ZIMS laboratory.

As seen from Figure 11, the structure of the holonic control respects the functional requirements of the enterprise control system. Different data connections and standards are used at the level of the individual holons: STEP, IGES, PNG, RAW, RGB, VRML, DXF.

Communication within the holons is illustrated by the example of manufacturing (Figure 12).

**Figure 11.** Structure of the holon manufacturing in ZIMS.

**Figure 12.** Communication of the holon manufacturing control in ZIMS.
