Z/pZ Petri nets model with application to an electroplating line

The notion of scheduling is a subject that characterizes many contemporary processes. However, Petri nets do not represent a tool to realize a complex sequencing. The originality of this study is mainly the replacement of the structure, associated with colors, by a structure of field Z/pZ that allows the processing of colors succession with mathematics. We propose in this paper to build a dynamic link between a scheduling solution and a simulation approach. We are interested here in modeling an electroplating line (mono-products) which involves very complicated sequences, modeled with difficulty by existing timed Petri nets (TPN) or timed colored Petri nets. A new kind of Petri nets, called Z/pZ TPN, is proposed based on a polynomial structure