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• TITLE: Using Stochastic Colored Petri nets for Designing Multi-Purpose Plants

  AUTHORS: Hasan Hosseini-Nasab, Ali Sadri

  KEYWORDS: Multi-Purpose Plant; Stochastic Colored Petri Net; Simulation

  JOURNAL NAME: Engineering, Vol.4 No.10, October 10, 2012

  ABSTRACT: Designing of a multi-purpose plant as one of the well-known manufacturing systems is more challenging than other manufacturing systems. This paper applies a stochastic colored Petri net (CPN) to design and analyze multi-purpose plants. A simple approach is proposed to determine the utilization of shared resources and to reduce the equipment’s idle times. Three scenarios are presented to describe the proposed model. Generally, according to desire of a decision maker, different scenarios can be considered in the model to achieve to the expected design or plant configuration. The main characteristics of the proposed model are flexibility, the easiness of practical application and the simulation of the model in an easy way.