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Petri Nets and Flexible Manufacturing.

Silva, Manuel; Valette, Robert

In: Rozenberg, G.: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 424; Advances in Petri Nets 1989, pages 374-417. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 1990.

Abstract: The aim of this survey is to introduce computer science/Petri net 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 presence of nets in CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) and CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing) for FMSs (Flexible Manufacturing Sytems) are considered. From the design point of view, the use of nets have many advantages in modeling, qualitative analysis, performance evaluation and code generation. From the control of the plant perspective, scheduling on net models, the coordination of the plant and the presence of nets on the local control level are discussed.

Keywords: flexible manufacturing (survey); computer aided manufacturing (survey).


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