PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF A007 FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEM WITH COLORED PETRI NETS

Workkow Modeling and Performance Evaluation with Colored Stochastic Petri Nets

Workflow Modeling and Performance Evaluation with Colored Stochastic Petri Nets

There is a need for modeling and performance evaluation techniques and tools for a fast and reliable design of workflow systems. The paper introduces a modeling methodology based on colored stochastic Petri nets. For describing a business process it is necessary to consider different aspects. Essential are functional (In what order?), organizational (By whom?) and information related aspects (W...

Petri nets and flexible manufacturing

The aim of this survey is to introduce Computer science/Petri nets specialists to the basic system level issues brought up by the development of Flexible Manufacturing and how Petri nets are used to aid the production engineers in their work. After some terminology concerning production engineering, the hierarchical decision and control level is briefly reviewed. Finally, the role and the prese...

Performance Prediction of a Flexible Manufacturing System

The present investigation presents a stochastic model for a flexible manufacturing system consisting of flexible machine, loading/unloading robot and an automated pallethandling device. We consider unreliable flexible manufacturing cell (FMC) wherein machine and robot operate under individual as well as common cause random failures. The pallethandling system is completely reliable. The pallet o...

Performance and Dependability Evaluation of Manufacturing Systems Using Petri Nets

The importance of modeling and performance evaluation for the design of manufacturing systems is obvious. A new modeling method based on Colored Petri Nets is introduced in this paper, which is especially tailored to manufacturing systems. We propose the separate modeling of the manufacturing system's structure and the production routes with dedicated colored Petri nets. After an automatic comp...