Modeling and Simulation of Reducer’s Production Process Based on Object-Oriented Petri Net

In order to deal well with the complexity in modeling a reducer’s production process, this paper proposes an Object-oriented Petri Net (OOPN) approach by combining object-oriented concept with Petri net theory. At first, the definitions of OOPN were given. Then, the procedure of modeling the production process with OOPN was described in detail, and the model analysis was conducted. Finally, the Flexsim software was used to simulate this model in order to find out the bottlenecks of the reducer’s process planning and some suggestions were proposed, which will lay a foundation on the optimization of its process planning.