SIMULATION AND INTEROPERABILITY IN THE PLANNING PHASE OF PRODUCTION PROCESSES

Interoperability is a progressive issue in the development of holistic production process simulations that are based on stand-alone simulation interconnections. In order to tackle the problem of missing interoperability, the standardization of simulation and model interfaces and transfer protocols can be taken into account. This procedure is endorsed by many organistaions like DIN ISO, IEEE, ASME or SISO and one of the most effective proceedings if a new simulation is developed and if the source code of the used simulations is available as well as changeable. However, as most simulations for a holistic production simulation already exist and as those simulations are usually isolated, high precisely solutions, which have no common interfaces for interconnection, a different approach is needed. The contribution at hand focuses on a framework that provides adaptive interfaces to establish interoperability of stand-alone simulations.