Improving performance of a flexible manufacturing system by Petri net based modelling and simulation

Author

Cavalieri, Salvatore

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Telecommun. Eng., Catania Univ., Italy

Volume

2

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

1298

Abstract

The main goal of the paper is to propose a methodology to improve the performance of a flexible manufacturing system (FMS), based on the use of Petri nets. The modelling is performed with the aim to represent the general behaviour of the FMS, avoiding a detailed description of the operations it involves. The model of the FMS is then used to evaluate its performance through simulation. The methodology proposed in the paper allows tuning suitable parameters of the FMS in order to improve its performance. The paper refers to a case study concerning the ST Microelectronics plant in Catania (Italy) for the production of semiconductor devices

Keywords

Petri nets; flexible manufacturing systems; integrated circuit manufacture; probability; Petri net based modelling; Petri net based simulation; ST Microelectronics; flexible manufacturing system; performance improvement; semiconductor devices; Computational modeling; Computer science; Cost function; Flexible manufacturing systems; Manufacturing industries; Manufacturing systems; Performance analysis; Petri nets; Production systems; Semiconductor devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics Society, 2000. IECON 2000. 26th Annual Confjerence of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Nagoya

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6456-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IECON.2000.972309

Filename

972309