Production Process Optimization in Flexible Manufacturing System Using Petri Nets
Ebrahim Sharifi Tashnizi, Shiva Farahani, A. R. Fazeli Nahrekhalaji · 2008
Abstract — This paper studies optimizing sharing resources priorities, keeping system job sequences and minimizing the total time of production lines in flexible manufacturing systems. Automatic lines in production cells, sharing resources and processing times of each, are studied and modeled by Petri nets. Subsequently, the practicability of model is validated by netlab software. Then, a nonlinear programming problem is applied to optimizing the PNS transitions of the FMS problem. Consequently, optimal times for each transition of the related PNS are achieved. Index Terms — Flexible Manufacturing Systems, Petri Nets,