Test Implementation and Initialisation of a Simulation Model Using CMSD

Abstract

This paper describes a test implementation of the Core Manufacturing Simulation Data (CMSD) information model and the integration and initialisation of a simulation model in a newly developed Simulation Engine. The cost of developing, implementing and using simulation technology is high. The costs of integrating simulation models with other manufacturing applications are even higher. There is always a need to enable data exchange and sharing between simulation applications and other software applications. The idea of the CMSD effort is to facilitate the above using neutral, reusable data structures for managing actual production operations and for simulating the performance of the manufacturing system. To address the problem of time consuming pre-coding for DES projects, a knowledge extraction tool is currently being developed. The knowledge extraction tool will read data from several resources of an organisation and output it in a format that is applicable for simulation purposes. The format that we adopted follows the CMSD standard in order to describe simulation related data. In this paper we present the modelling of a complex production line of our industrial partner with the CMSD standard and the development of the translator in ManPy so that it can read the CMSD information model and run the simulation.

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“…As interoperability is a major issue for communicating different business applications (Bloomfield et al, 2012), the Core Manufacturing Simulation Data (CMSD) standard chartered by the Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO) to facilitate simulation process and transferring relevant data conveniently. Since then, researchers and practitioners are attempting to use CMSD based data structure to facilitate DES based decision making and for other applications (Barlas et al, 2014;Bloomfield et al, 2012;Fournier, 2011;Johansson et al, 2007). This experiment aims to provide a viable solution to address some of the limitations of SMEs.…”