| Article ID: | iaor1994508 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 31 |
| Issue: | 6 |
| Start Page Number: | 1423 |
| End Page Number: | 1439 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 1993 |
| Journal: | International Journal of Production Research |
| Authors: | Teng Sheng-Hsien, Zhang Jie |
| Keywords: | networks |
This paper discusses the decomposition problem in the modelling and simulation of manufacturing systems. Petri nets are chosen as the modelling tool in a manufacturing system control study. The parallelism property in the manufacturing system operations are extracted by the developed decomposition procedure. A system can be divided into several subsystems based on this decomposition procedure. Subsystems then can be analysed or simulated concurrently. This process generates the parallel processing activity for modelling and simulating manufacturing systems.