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This paper discusses part of a SERC funded investigation into computer aided production management. The broad objective is to produce a framework within which developments in practice, simulation and theory can be brought together so as to aid the production manager. A range of approaches for representing and recording production management systems has been investigated and Petri-nets is one of the methods examined. Petri-nets can be used to model the flow of information and control of actions in a system.
The paper reviews the use of Petri-nets to model production systems, and describes a Petri-net language used to record management structures.
Computer software to represent Petri-nets has been developed. In this the labelling of transitions in the system has been extended to mean either a transition description, or an equivalent computer program. Strings produced on execution of the net are, therefore, extended descriptions of system function. An example is given of using the Petri-net approach.
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Head, M.A., Barson, R.J., Bonney, M.C. (1987). A Petri-net Representation of Computer-aided Production Management. In: McGoldrick, P.F. (eds) Advances in Manufacturing Technology II. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8524-4_45
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