Flexible Manufacturing System Simulation Using Petri Nets
Carlos Mireles, Alfonso Noriega, Gerardo Leyv · 2006
In 1962 German mathematician Kart Adam on his Ph.D. work “Kommunikation mit automaten”, he proposed a new way for modelling & representating systems where events and transitions are present. This new representation is now known as Petri Nets (PN). Since then, several researchers have used this tool. In the USA and in Europe several developments have been done. In 1980, in Europe, a work table was controlled using PN and the related work was presented at one International Conference. Researchers in France have done great contributions to the development and the applications of PN. Some of them used the PN to describe Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) and this application had a big influence in the development of the Grafcet.