Conceptual data driven design and simulation system for flexible and stochastic enterprises

Abstract

In this paper, we proposed an approach to simulation modelling and a modelling discipline with conceptual data-driven manufacturing design and simulation system to be use to aid the model development process. The intent of this system is to be able to rapidly create and modify system designs based on the changing manufacturing requirements. It also enables verification of those designs to meet new requirements through simulation. The design and simulation of these manufacturing systems will be based on real data drawn from existing manufacturing applications. There are three major parts of this system. The information management part contains manufacturing applications from which data can be extracted. The scenario creation part contains a scenario management application based on the concepts of function groups and Petri Nets (PN), this application can also generate the simulation model and support files necessary to run the simulation. The final part is the verification and analysis part. It includes a simulation engine that can execute a simulation using the model and data generated by the scenario manager.