Application of hierarchical Colored Petri Net in Distributed Manufacturing network

Colored Petri net (CPN) is a powerful tool for modeling, simulation and analysis for manufacturing system. As the emergency of Distributed Manufacturing System (DMS), CPN has to be extended to competent for larger and more complex model. Meanwhile, DMS becomes an important issue for industry and how to model a complex manufacturing network for better throughout needs further investigation. This paper provides a general structure of DMS, and use hierarchical CPN, which is the extension for normal CPN, to model a simplified DMS. The proposed approach shows huge superiority on modeling large complex manufacturing system which makes the material flow and transitions clearly represented and provides overview and detailed description for DMS.