Piraa: Development of an injection molding machine manufacturing monitoring system based on production information retrieval agent architecture

Production information retrieval is an important issue for manufacturing industries. Effective data transmission and retrieval mechanism with data protection is an urgent research topic. Therefore, a socket information retrieval mechanism and agent services for information retrieval on the basis of injection molding machines is proposed in this research and is addressed as Production Information Retrieval Agent Architecture (PIRAA). The proposed agent adapted a customized packet format for client-server connection communication and sent process parameters back to a production process database. Using the experimental results, a cloud-based platform was implemented based on injection molding machines. The results show the PIRAA framework can be used for developing cloud-based platforms in a stabilized and remarkable way.