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A Hybrid Simulation Model for an Efficient and Flexible Shop Floor System

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One of the goals of the future manufacturing systems is autonomic and self-organized shop floors. This requires flexible manufacturing units in terms of their availability and ability so that extremely personalized products, even of lot size equal to one, can be produced. In this paper, we propose a framework, which focuses on grouping cohesion of manufacturing units and efficient routing of products to resources. Towards this, we integrate an established cultural evolution model to achieve desirable flexibility of resources considering the requirements of the products that are being manufactured. A hybrid discrete simulation environment is implemented, in which cultural evolution among the resources is modeled using discrete-time, whereas, for routing, a simple queuing system is modeled using the discrete-event method.

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The authors would like to acknowledge support by FFG funded Pro2Future under contract No. 6112792.

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  1. Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, Sohar University, Sohar, Oman

    Kashif Zia

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Science and Technology, Bannu, Pakistan

    Umar Farooq

  3. Institute of Pervasive Computing, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria

    Alois Ferscha

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  1. U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Orlando, FL, USA

    Julia L. Wright

  2. Soar Tech, Orlando, FL, USA

    Daniel Barber

  3. Department of Product Development, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

    Sofia Scataglini

  4. Biomedical Research and Environmental, NASA Lyndon Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, USA

    Sudhakar L. Rajulu

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Zia, K., Farooq, U., Ferscha, A. (2021). A Hybrid Simulation Model for an Efficient and Flexible Shop Floor System. In: Wright, J.L., Barber, D., Scataglini, S., Rajulu, S.L. (eds) Advances in Simulation and Digital Human Modeling. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 264. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79763-8_25

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