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As the complexity of manufacturing systems keeps escalating, the maintenance decision making becomes increasingly challenging. Simulation has become an effective way to avoid costly decisions through what-if analysis of different maintenance policies, and maintenance schedules before their actual implementation. In this paper, a new modularized simulation package for manufacturing production systems has been developed using standard Stochastic Timed Petri-Nets (STPNs). By utilizing the basic functional modules, we can quickly build production lines with different configurations and maintenance policies. A maintenance decision support tool has also been developed in this paper, together with the simulation package, to provide offline and online maintenance decision support. Copyright © 2007 IFAC.
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Lei, Y., Liu, J., Ni, J. et al. Production line simulation using STPN for maintenance scheduling. J Intell Manuf 21, 213–221 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10845-008-0194-1
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