Simulation of flexible control strategies

  • Authors:

  • Glen D. Smith;D. J. Medeiros

  • Affiliations:

  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department, Penn State University, University Park, PA;Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department, Penn State University, University Park, PA

  • Venue:
  • WSC '95 Proceedings of the 27th conference on Winter simulation
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

Flexibility in developing and testing operating policies for manufacturing systems requires the ability to quickly and easily change a simulation model to incorporate the new policy. To achieve this goal, the model of the system control strategy should be separated from the model of the physical system. Using a flexible manufacturing cell as an example, we first show how this separation can be accomplished, and then discuss desirable features in a language that would simplify the approach.