Abstract
Distributed virtual factory (DVF) based on the concept of distributed simulation has been proposed as a new simulation environment to evaluate the performance of large scale manufacturing systems. To develop a DVF, it is necessary to add three functions on existing area level simulators. These functions, i.e, communication, synchronization and adaptation of data description are developed as a unified communication interface which can be implemented on the simulators with minimum changes and enables to reuse them in an open environment. An area level simulator of a prototype DVF developed on a local area network with engineering work stations, of which OSs are the same but simulation packages are different, is replaced by one on a PC with another simulation package in this study. The effectiveness of developed interface is discussed from the view point of work load for program modification.
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