Modeling and analysis method for reconfigurable manufacturing cell based on generalized stochastic Petri nets
Liyun Xu · Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems · 2006
To reveal the influence on system performance by reconfiguration process of Reconfigurable Manufacturing Cell(RMC) and computation reconfiguration approach,based on characteristics of RMC,a modular modeling and analysis approach based on Generalized Stochastic Petri nets(GSPN) was presented.Different resources and reconfiguration process of RMC were connected to corresponding basic modules of GSPN and the GSPN model could be easily reconfigured.Furthermore,the analysis of GSPN model using Markov chain theory was presented,and the performance index of RMC were also discussed.An example of the reconfigurable processing of a motor assembly line was provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the methodology.