In: European Control Conference 99. August 1999.
Abstract: The optimization at design of large manufacturing systems is a key issue. To deal with it the first question to solve is to adopt an adequate modelling formalism to express the intrincate interleaving of competition and cooperation relationships. Moreover, optimization techniques and strategies should be applied. This paper presents an integrated tool for the automated optimization of DEDS, with application to manufacturing systems. After overviewing optimization problems in Manufacturing Systems, it presents the integration of existing tools for the modelling and evaluation with Petri Nets and a general-purpose optimization package based on Simulated Annealing. Two application examples show the benefits of the proposed technique.
Keywords: Petri Nets; Optimization; Meta-heuristic; Simulated Annealing.