Object oriented modeling and simulation of manufacturing systems

The content of this paper concerns research work accomplished on modeling for the simulation of manufacturing systems. It presents an object modeling approach allowing us to resolve some problems concerning the simulation process (abstraction, programming, modeling, coherence methodology, control, etc.) [1, 2, 3, 4]. The approach is based on concepts of: resource, hierarchical structure, perfect production system, abstraction level, simulation objective and scenario. Thus, we propose a generic basic processor allowing us to model both the physical and control systems. The model should permit one to rationalize the simulation process by offering a maximum of flexibility. The object oriented technique is adopted due to its several advantages.