Article ID: | iaor1994493 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 4 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 159 |
End Page Number: | 181 |
Publication Date: | Jan 1992 |
Journal: | International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems |
Authors: | Jafari Mohsen A. |
Keywords: | petri nets |
In a dynamic and flexible manufacturing environment, a shop-floor controller must be designed so that it automatically (or with minimum human intervention) and quickly responds to the changes (e.g., in part type or part routing) in the system. Such a performance may be achieved provided that the controller is simple and sufficiently general in its scope of application. In this article, an architecture for such a shop-floor controller is presented. The architecture is based on colored Petri nets with ordered colored sets and structured input and output functions.