Petri net modeling and analysis of an iPad manufacturing system

The ever increasing sales of Apple's iPad have created a tablet computer craze, attracting various manufacturers to invest and conduct research in this sector. Meanwhile, the production cost is crucial to being considered in the craze. To lower the cost, manufacturers are striving to develop re...

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Published in:Systems engineering 2018-03, Vol.21 (2), p.115-130
Main Authors: Shen, Rong‐Kuan, Chiou, Gwo‐Jen, Yang, Cheng‐Ying, Shen, Victor R.L., Chen, Yu‐Chia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Computer simulation
Cost engineering
directed spanning tree
iPad
Manufacturers
manufacturing process
Petri nets
Production planning
Software development tools
Tablet computers
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Summary:The ever increasing sales of Apple's iPad have created a tablet computer craze, attracting various manufacturers to invest and conduct research in this sector. Meanwhile, the production cost is crucial to being considered in the craze. To lower the cost, manufacturers are striving to develop reasonable and complete manufacturing processes. We have herewith proposed a Petri net model to describe the system structure and to label out the simulated operation messages or dynamic decision‐making behaviors. The key minimal cost path is finally found so as to manifest the optimal decision‐making on the production flow. Finally, the software tool, PIPE‐2, is used to verify the algorithm of finding the minimal cost path. Thus, the experimental results successfully demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed approach.
ISSN:1098-1241
1520-6858
DOI:10.1002/sys.21424