NESTED COLORED TIMED PETRI NETS FOR PRODUCTION CONFIGURATION OF PRODUCT FAMILIES

Linda Zhang (1) , Brian Rodrigues (2)

1 Operations
2 Lee Kong Chian School of Management

Production configuration is as an effective technique to deal with product variety while maintaining production stability and efficiency. It involves a diverse set of process elements (e.g., machines, operations), a high variety of component parts and assemblies and many constraints arising from product and process variety. Production configuration entails the selection and subsequent arrangement of process elements into complete production processes and the final evaluation of configured multiple alternatives. To better understand production configuration and its implementation, we study the underlying logic for configuring production processes using a dynamic modeling and visualization approach. This is accomplished through developing a new formalism of nested colored timed Petri nets (PNs). In view of the inherent modeling difficulties, in the formalism three types of nets - process nets, assembly nets and manufacturing nets - together with a nested net system are defined. Using an industrial example of vibration motors, we show how the proposed formalism can be applied to specify production processes at different levels of abstraction to achieve production configuration.

Mots clés: Physical Sciences

Linda Zhang, Brian Rodrigues. NESTED COLORED TIMED PETRI NETS FOR PRODUCTION CONFIGURATION OF PRODUCT FAMILIES. International Journal of Production Research, 2009, 48 (06), pp.1805-1833. ⟨10.1080/00207540802585329⟩. ⟨hal-00548945⟩