System Modeling and Control with Resource-Oriented Petri Nets

This volume introduces the authors’ resource-oriented Petri net (ROPN) model that can reduce model size and offer improvements that facilitate effective modeling, analysis, and control of automated and reconfigurable manufacturing systems. Presenting the latest research in their novel approach, the authors provide proven theories and methodologies for implementing cost and time-saving improvements to contemporary manufacturing systems. They supply effective tools for deadlock avoidance, including deadlock-free routing and deadlock-free scheduling. They also include simple and complex industrial manufacturing system examples to illustrate time-tested concepts, theories, and approaches for solving real-life application problems.