The Simulation of the Ship Production Design Process Based on Hierarchical Timed Petri Net

Abstract:

Shipbuilding is a very important industry for its irreplaceable role into the sea transport and oceans exploration. But ship production design is a very complex process, causing the inefficiency of the shipbuilding. At the same time, the current situation of most shipbuilding enterprises is the multi-project environment and the resources among them are shared, the large and complex systems are hardly to simulate. In this research, a multi-resources oriented hierarchical timed petri net (HTPN) are constructed to model the ship production design process under the multi-project environment and a WFPN software is developed based on HTPN. To evaluate the efficiency and applicability of WFPN, a case study is conducted and the results show that it’s practicable. Beside on it, the analyses of the resource loads are also providing a way to promote the efficiency of the shipbuilding enterprises.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 544)
• Pages: 170-175
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.544.170
• Online since: June 2012
• Authors: Rui Yan, Ping Jiang, Wei Jia Li, Jun Yan, Long Wen
• Keywords: Hierarchical Timed Petri Net, Ship Production Design, Simulation

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