Petri net modeling and analysis of an iPad manufacturing system

Rong‐Kuan Shen, Gwo‐Jen Chiou, Cheng‐Ying Yang, Victor R.L. Shen and Yu‐Chia Chen

Systems Engineering, 2018, vol. 21, issue 2, 115-130

Abstract: The ever increasing sales of Apple's iPad have created a tablet computer craze, attracting various manufacturers to invest and conduct research in this sector. Meanwhile, the production cost is crucial to being considered in the craze. To lower the cost, manufacturers are striving to develop reasonable and complete manufacturing processes. We have herewith proposed a Petri net model to describe the system structure and to label out the simulated operation messages or dynamic decision‐making behaviors. The key minimal cost path is finally found so as to manifest the optimal decision‐making on the production flow. Finally, the software tool, PIPE‐2, is used to verify the algorithm of finding the minimal cost path. Thus, the experimental results successfully demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed approach.

Date: 2018
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.1002/sys.21424

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wly:syseng:v:21:y:2018:i:2:p:115-130

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Systems Engineering from John Wiley & Sons
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Wiley Content Delivery ().