Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Production Lines Using the Modeling
Language Mosel, Gunter Bolch, Stefan Greiner · 1996
Modeling and perfonnance evaluation of current production systems gains more and more importance be cause of growing system complexity and production costs. Therefore tools and methods are needed that allow a simple modeling and perfonnance evaluation of systems. The goal of this paper is to give a short introduc tion into the specification of production systems using the model description language MOSEL (MOdeling Specification and Evaluation Language) [BoHe95] and the analysis tool MOSES (MOdeling Specification and Evaluation System) [BGJZ94, BGR95] which uses MOSEL as input. Therefore the characteristics of the components of production systems (like batch processing or unreliable machines) are introduced. For each of these characteristics a MOSEL specification is given and explained. On the example of a wafer production system [Rand86] it is shown that using our specification language also realistic production systems can be specified and analyzed.