Distributed simulation model for computer integrated manufacturing
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Fujii, S.; Tsunoda, H.; Ogita, H.; Kidani, Y.
- Source
- Proceedings of Winter Simulation Conference Simulation conference Simulation Conference Proceedings, 1994. Winter. :946-953 1994
- Subject
- Computing and Processing
Computational modeling
Computer simulation
Computer integrated manufacturing
Production facilities
Manufacturing systems
Computer aided manufacturing
Distributed computing
Computer industry
Computer networks
Systems engineering and theory
- Language
We discuss the necessity of a simulation tool which can handle a large and complex manufacturing system under CIM environment, and then consider problems incurred by developing such a large system model. A distributed simulation model developed on a distributed computer system is then shown to be a promising method to cope with the problems. Lastly, a time bucket method with time warp mechanism is proposed for the synchronization of the distributed simulation and its computational features are investigated by modeling a virtual factory on six workstations connected by the ethernet.