An object model for simulation of manufacturing systems

Simulation imposes itself in the field of support and decision making for the analysis, design and exploitation of manufacturing systems. The main properties expected in the simulation tools are reusability, abstraction and hierarchy. However, the actual simulation approaches do not offer all these features especially the reusability, except those which are based on the object model. In this paper we present an object oriented approach allowing the modelling and simulation of manufacturing systems. This approach uses a particular object model and a new analysis approach