A Methodological Approach to Build Simulation Models of Manufacturing Systems with Distributed Control

Simulation is a powerful tool to analyse manufacturing systems for purposes of design and on-going operation. Nowadays, simulation modelling and analysis is confronted to increasing evolution of companies towards distributed process control. Thus, simulation modelling must be supported by an underlying modelling discipline, or structured approach to modelling factory operations. Our study focuses on simulation of industrial systems with distributed control. we propose a structured approach to build the simulation models. This approach is based on methodology ASDI (analysis-specification-design-implementation) and it is independent of any platform or software tool. We will illustrate the use of this approach in an assembly line manufacturing application