Protocol design and performance analysis for manufacturing message specification: A Petri net approach

Author

Wang, F.Y. ; Gildea, K. ; Jungnitz, H. ; Chen, D.D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Syst. & Ind. Eng., Arizona Univ., Tucson, AZ, USA

Volume

41

Issue

6

fYear

1994

fDate

12/1/1994 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

641

Lastpage

653

Abstract

The manufacturing message specification (MMS) is the ISO standard communication protocol specific to manufacturing. To analyze MMS design and performance, service unit automats are introduced to represent individual MMS services, while service connection Petri Nets (PNs) are constructed from these automats to describe MMS service connections and processes. This approach makes MMS protocol specification and analysis possible in terms of well-developed concepts and methods in PN theory. It leads to a distributed and hierarchical model of MMS software system by integrating service connection PNs. A generalized stochastic PN for MMS performance evaluation is obtained by incorporating service parameters and time factors into the model. A technique based on T-invariants is used to simplify the performance analysis

Keywords

ISO standards; Petri nets; automata theory; distributed processing; hierarchical systems; industrial control; protocols; software engineering; telecontrol; ISO standard communication protocol; Petri net; T-invariants; distributed model; hierarchical model; manufacturing message specification; performance analysis; performance evaluation; protocol design; protocol specification; service connection; service parameters; software; time factors; Application software; Automata; Automatic control; Computer aided manufacturing; Control systems; Management information systems; Manufacturing automation; Manufacturing processes; Performance analysis; Protocols;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0278-0046

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/41.334581

Filename

334581