A review of petri-net applications in manufacturing

Petri-nets (PNs) can model concurrent and synchronous activities in a manufacturing system at various levels of abstraction. They have been used for modelling manufacturing systems, knowledge representation on the shop floor, process-planning applications, decisionsupport tasks, etc. PNs are being used in a growing variety of application areas. This paper focuses on PN applications in manufacturing. A comprehensive review of research is provided. The paper also describes the design and application of PNs in the modelling of a manufacturing cell, the representation of the working of the cell at various levels of abstraction, and the inferences that can be drawn through PN use. Ideas for future research are presented.

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