Presenting GPSS/H results with the Graphical Kernel System (GKS)
WSC '86 Proceedings of the 18th conference on Winter simulation
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The simulation of material movement, equipment location, operating and scheduling rules is a powerful tool for the design of state of the art automated manufacturing facilities. This paper describes a software system (AutoGram) that allows the designer of an automated manufacturing facility to easily construct a simulation model by graphically describing the system to be modeled. The designer selects from a menu of standard manufacturing and material handling components. These include such devices as robots, machine tools, conveyors, cranes, automatic guided vehicles and storage systems. For each device the designer may use default performance characteristics or he may specify the important operating parameters of the device. From the designers facility definition a GPSS/H (General Purpose Simulation System) model is automatically produced. Output from the GPSS simulation is displayed graphically as an animated representation of the facility. The designer can observe on the graphics display an animated picture of the manufacturing facility in operation under various simulated operating conditions. Complicated simulation models can be produced in 1/10th the time of traditional techniques.