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Using Stochastic Colored Petri nets for Designing Multi-Purpose Plants
Department of Industrial Engineering, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran
Department of Industrial Engineering, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran
- 1 Department of Industrial Engineering, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran
- 2 Department of Industrial Engineering, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran
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Abstract
Designing of a multi-purpose plant as one of the well-known manufacturing systems is more challenging than other manufacturing systems. This paper applies a stochastic colored Petri net (CPN) to design and analyze multi-purpose plants. A simple approach is proposed to determine the utilization of shared resources and to reduce the equipment’s idle times. Three scenarios are presented to describe the proposed model. Generally, according to desire of a decision maker, different scenarios can be considered in the model to achieve to the expected design or plant configuration. The main characteristics of the proposed model are flexibility, the easiness of practical application and the simulation of the model in an easy way.
KeywordsMulti-Purpose PlantStochastic Colored Petri NetSimulation
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