In: Modelling the Innovation, Communications, Automation, and Information Systems. Proceedings of the IFIP TC 7 Conference, 1990, Rome, Italy, pages 239-246. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1990.
Abstract: The paper presents a language and a supporting methodology to build and execute prototypes of manufacturing systems. The object is the building block of the language; generalization and aggregation are the static relationships provided among them. Petri nets are the means to express concurrency and synchronization inside and among objects. The methodology supports the user in combining existing elemental objects to define new ones, and in decomposing unspecified ones in terms of already specified or unspecified ones; the final result should be a collection of completely defined objects, which can be executed.
Keywords: discrete part manufacturing system design; prototyping manufacturing systems; combining (objects); decomposing (objects); synchronization.