Paper Info
Title
A Petri Net Model Of Process Platform-Based Production Configuration
Abstract
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is twofold. In view of the importance of process platform-based production configuration (PPbPC) in sustaining product family production efficiency, it is to study the underlying logic for configuring production processes for a product family based on a process platform. Second, it is to apply the Petri nets (PNs) techniques to model PPbPC, in attempting to shed light on the underlying logic.Design/methodology/approach - The authors first identify the fundamental issues in PPbPC, including variety handling, process variation accommodation, configuration at different abstraction levels, and constraint satisfaction. To accommodate the corresponding modelling difficulties, the authors develop a formalism of hierarchical colored timed PNs (HCTPNs) based on the principles of hierarchical PNs, timed PNs, and colored PNs. In the formalism, three types of nets together with a system of HCTPNs are defined to address the modelling of PPbPC.Findings - Applying HCTPNs to vibration motors' case has revealed the logic of specifying complete production processes of final products at different levels of abstraction to achieve production configuration. The preliminary results also further demonstrate the feasibility of modelling PPbPC based on HCTPNs.Research limitations/implications - Traditional approaches to planning production processes for individual products may limit production performance improvement when companies need to timely produce a high variety of customized products. Systematic methods should be developed to plan production processes for product families so as to achieve production efficiency while utilizing the existing manufacturing resources.Originality/value - By integrating the advantages of existing PN techniques, the HCTPNs formalism is developed to shed light on planning production processes for product families. The resulting production configuration model can facilitate practitioners to achieve production efficiency in producing large numbers of customized products.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1108/JMTM-01-2012-0007
JOURNAL OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT
Keywords
Field
DocType
Process platform, Production configuration, Colored Petri nets, Hierarchical Petri nets, Timed Petri nets, Production management, Production processes
Data mining,Petri net,Computer science,Stochastic Petri net,Distributed computing
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
24
6
1741-038X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
1
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Linda L. Zhang1337.22
Brian Rodrigues2788.07