Abstract
The demands of modern industry push towards new adaptive and configurable production systems where multi-agent techniques and technologies, suitable for modular, de-centralized, complex and time varying environments, can be exploited. In this work a generic assembly line is evaluated and the basic features, problems and non-idealities that can occur during the production are taken into account for evaluating and developing an intelligent automated emulated process made of Multi-Agent Robotic Systems. A simplified agentification of the process is made: the main elements of the production are modeled as an agent while the operators that work to restock the local working station stores are considered as autonomous(robotic) agents.