Book Description:The text is designed for engineering students at the senior undergraduate level and first-year students at graduate level, and professionals (R&D engineers in the industry and factory managers). The authors offer a unique effort in presenting a unified and systematic treatment of various modeling methodologies and analysis techniques for performance evaluation of automated manufacturing systems.The text begins with an overview of automated manufacturing systems, and then provides a clear and comprehensive discussion of three principal analytical modeling paradigms: Markov chains, queues and queuing networks, and petri nets.
Features:� Presents the first ever treatment of the mathematical modeling of manufacturing systems.� Offers a unified study of principal analytical modeling paradigms for automated manufacturing systems.� Discusses many recent research contributions in the area of modeling of automated manufacturing systems, including deadlock modeling, transient analysis, queuing network approximations, Petri Net modeling, and integrated analytical modeling.� Provides a large number of exercises and problems.
Contents:Preface. INTRODUCTION_Modeling Automated Manufacturing Systems. Performance Modeling Tools. Organization of the Book. Bibliographic Notes and Bibliography. AUTOMATED MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS_Introduction. Manufacturing Systems. Performance Measures. Computer-Controlled Machines. Material Handling Systems. Plant Layout. Flexible Manufacturing Systems. Computer Control Systems. Bibliographic Notes and Bibliography. MARKOV CHAIN MODELS_Memoryless Random Variables. Stochastic Processes in Manufacturing. Discrete Time Markov Chain Models. Continuous Time Markov Chain Models. An Examples: Markov Model of a Transfer Line. Birth and Death Processes in Manufacturing. Time Reversible Markov Chains in Manufacturing. Absorbing States and Modeling of Deadlocks. Semi-Markov Processes in Manufacturing. Transient Analysis of Manufacturing Systems. Computational Issues in Markov Analysis. Bibliographic Notes and Bibliography. QUEUING MODELS_Queues: Notation and Examples. The M/M/1 Queue. The M/M/m Queue. Batch Arrival Queuing Systems. Queues with General Distributions. Queues with Breakdowns. Analysis of a Flexible Machine Centre. Queuing Networks. Open Queuing Networks. Closed Queuing Networks. Product Form Queuing Networks. Queuing Networks with Blocking. Approximate Analysis of Queuing Systems. Performability Analysis. Bibliographic Notes and Bibliography. PETRI NET MODELS_Classical Petri Nets. Stochastic Petri Nets. Generalized Stochastic Petri Nets. GSPN Modeling of Kanban Systems. Deadlock Analysis Using Petri Nets. Extended Classes of Timed Petri Nets. Integrated PRQN-GSPN Models. Bibliographic Notes and Bibliography. EPILOGUE. Index.
About the Author:Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.|Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
