Petri nets compositional modeling and verification of Flexible Manufacturing Systems

Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS) are amongst the most studied types of systems, however due to their increasing complexity, there is still room for improvement in their modeling and analysis. In this paper we consider the design and the analysis of stochastic models of FMS in two complementary respects. First we describe a (stochastic) Petri Nets based compositional framework which enables to model an FMS by combination of an arbitrary number of basic components. Second we demonstrate how classical transient-analysis of manufacturing systems, including reliability and performability analysis, can be enriched by application of a novel, sophisticated stochastic logic, namely the Hybrid Automata Stochastic Logic (HASL). We demonstrate the proposed methodology on an FMS example.