Abstract
Manufacturing systems can be thought as production networks nodes whose relations have a strong impact on design and analysis of each system. Commercial simulators are already adopted to analyse complex networked systems, but the development of a monolithic model can be too complex or infeasible when a detailed description of the nodes is not available outside the owner of the node. Then the problem can be decomposed modelling complex systems with various simulators that interoperate in a synchronized manner. Herein, the integration of simulators is addressed by taking as a reference the High Level Architecture (HLA). This paper proposes modifications to Commercial-off-the-shelf Simulation Package Interoperability Product Development Group protocols and to use patterns of how HLA can be effectively adopted to support Commercial Simulation Package interoperability: A new solution for the synchronous entity passing problem and modifications to the Entity Transfer Specification are presented. The resulting infrastructure is validated and tested over an industrial case.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 237-252 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Journal of Simulation |
Volume | 6 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Nov 2012 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Complex manufacturing systems
- Discrete event simualtion
- Distributed simulation
- HLA
- Interoperability reference models
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- Modeling and Simulation
- Management Science and Operations Research
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering