Cellular manufacturing systems modeling: The Petri net approach

Abstract The two requirements for automating a cellular manufacturing system are making the manufacturing cell control system efficient and decreasing its response time. Cell control algorithms can be generated from a system model that can truly represent the system. In this research, Petri nets are used to model and to represent the dynamic behavior of an unmanned cell's operations. These nets fully describe both the operations of a specific cell and the detailed operations within the cell. Petri nets show the pull system control, the decision-making points in the system (represented by the transitions that have inhibitor arcs attached), and the flexibility of part-type changes (allowed by mutual exclusion).

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