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Object-oriented software modeling of a Flexible Manufacturing System

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Flexible Manufacturing Systems play an important role in improving our manufacturing productivity. Simulation is emerging as a popular tool in modeling FMS for analyzing its performance in the area of production planning/scheduling. In this paper, we illustrate how to model a Flexible Manufacturing System in the object-oriented paradigm using an example. We present a systemtic approach to the design of object-oriented programming systems based on a combination of data modeling and event analysis techniques.

An entity relationship approach is used as the basis for an initial decomposition of the system into objects. The design is refined by an analysis of the events the objects participate in. The design is implemented in Objective-C. Finally, we describe ways in which this model of an FMS can be extended to explore popular research questions in production planning and scheduling.

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  1. Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California at Berkeley, 94720, CA, Berkeley, USA

    Sadashiv Adiga & Milind Gadre

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Adiga, S., Gadre, M. Object-oriented software modeling of a Flexible Manufacturing System. J Intell Robot Syst 3, 147–165 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00242162

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