Abstract
This paper focuses on the techniques used to generate a multilevel simulation system that can optimise the design, layout, control and performance of a flexible manufacturing system (FMS). It discusses the software structures used to design and implement the simulator, which operates in the following modes: Off-line system-layout optimisation Off-line part-schedule evaluation Off-line control-algorithm evaluation/optimisation On-line state extrapolation and “what if?” testing All of these modes of operation are essential to the efficient running of a complex FMS. The techniques described have been applied and tested on an FMS at the Key Centre for Computer Integrated Manufacture at Swinburne Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Australia.
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