Modeling and Simulation of Manufacturing Systems in Unstable Environment

This paper proposes a new approach to model and simulate manufacturing systems in order to rapidly respond to the changes of the manufacturing environment, including the enhancement of the manufacturing processing, reconfiguration of the manufacturing resources and the dynamic control. A structural conceptual model is proposed to describe manufacturing systems, including product entity, processing unit and control center. Then, based on the structural conceptual model, the simulation system for the one specific manufacturing system is developed by importing the structural manufacturing information, and the result shows the contributions to the manufacturing management practice.