Assessment of Sustainability for Production Control Based on Petri net and Cyber-Physical Cloud System

Abstract

Sustainability management at the production control can make business feasible and profitable, ensuring the safety of the employees, communities and consumers, in addition to the efficient use of resources/raw materials. However, industrial standards do not describe how to deal with sustainability at Productive Systems (PSs) design and their control. Therefore, this paper proposes a framework based on extensions of the ANSI/ISA95 standard for assessment of PSs performance considering sustainability indicators. The framework also considers information processing, storage and access remote for each system component through cyber-physical system and cloud computing technologies. Furthermore, a systematic approach based on Petri Nets (PNs) techniques ensures a formalism to verify and validate the behavior of the Sustainable Productive Systems (SuPSs). Application cases demonstrate and indicate the advantages of the proposed framework to the feasibility, profitability, safety and efficiency of SuPSs.