Manufacturing systems modelling and simulation software design: A reference model

Abstract

Nowadays production environments request standard efficient frameworks in order to map and simulate manufacturing processes which literature or market can barely provide. A generalized reference model is necessary to highlight the differences and affinities among manufacturing systems resources, so as to examine the possibilities of modelling of such concepts and their respective roles. OPUS project formalizes a new modelling and simulation language for productive manufacturing systems through the support of an optimization tool development. On a practical level a BPMN approach has been useful to conceive a model strictly related to business processes, in addition to the simplification of the implementation/coding of the simulation tool.