Analysis and simulation of manufacturing systems using SimHPN toolbox

SimHPN is a software tool embedded in MATLAB that has been developed for simulation, analysis and design of systems modeled by hybrid Petri nets. This paper is an extension of our previous work [1] where only continuous Petri nets have been considered. In the current extension we consider infinite server semantics for the continuous part and exponential and/or deterministic firing delays for the discrete part. In particular, the new facilities of SimHPN allow the use of purely discrete or purely continuous models. As an application, we investigate the simulation and analysis of manufacturing systems.