Automated production based model of flexible cell using Timed Colored Petri Nets

The purpose of this paper is to develop a model of a flexible manufacturing cell to identify the production strategies using various types of product processing. To model the system, Petri Net Theory is implemented with the extension of Timed Color Petri Nets (TCPN). To improve the production of various types of parts in the system, tool management plays an important role during system modeling. The proposed model is based on the flexible manufacturing cell from the Faculty of Technological Engineering and Management, University of Oradea. CPNTools software is used to model the system and analyze the overall production and performance in the system