Discrete Event Dynamic Systems can be useful to model and analyse the performances of manufacturing processes. The manufacturing system considered in this paper consists in the repetitive production of different classes of products by means of a set of machines. Such a system is modelled viaTimed Event Graphs, a special class of Petri Nets, with the aim at exploiting the relevant results to analyse and optimize its performances. In particular, the optimization problem of maximizing the throughput of a system with constrained production mix while minimizing the work-in-progress is stated and discussed.
Discrete event systems; manufacturing processes; event graphs; system analysis; optimization.
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