Integrated development of nonlinear process planning and simulation-based shop floor control

Although several methods of simulation-based SFC have been suggested for the SFCS, this research only paid attention to the generation of a target simulation code and could not be fully integrated with the SFCS. Hence, this paper focuses on the conceptual architecture for the rapid and adaptive realization of a simulation-based SFCS for a discrete part manufacturing system. The developed simulation-based SFCS can process non-linear process plans. To this end, the new simulator engine must be developed. It advances the simulation clock and drives the simulation-based SFCS by investigating the information contents specified in the process and resource models.