Manpy: an Open Source Library of Manufacturing Simulation Objects Written in Python
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چکیده
Discrete Event Simulation (DES) is arguably one of the most popular operation research techniques. Even though Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) DES software has reached an impressive state of maturity, there are still problems that deter organizations from investing in such tools and adopting DES in their decision support processes. On the other hand, the nature of Open Source (OS) software development has properties that would help in overcoming problems such as high cost and lack of flexibility and reusability of DES projects. However, it seems that OS DES has so far achieved limited success, especially in fields like manufacturing, logistics or services. We present a new OS library of manufacturing DES objects called ManPy. We justify the need of such a project and describe the main driving ideas behind it.
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