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Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering Management /General
Journal title
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING
This paper attempts to model the Automated Guided Vehicle ( AGV) system of
a flexible manufacturing system ( FMS) by using timed petri net and Activit
y Cycle Diagrams (ACDs) as basic tools. A timed petri net used for planning
of AGV system in FMSs ensures conflict-free and deadlock free operations o
f the system. To understand the system as it is observed in practice for de
lineating the behaviour of entities, the ACD has been used. Mean utilizatio
n and the utilization index have been taken as performance measures to eval
uate the system and they have been compared with previous work.