Modeling and analysis of disassembly systems using continuous Petri nets

Abstract

The disassembly system considered here is a plant for which a different station carries out each operation. In other words, every operation with no precedence relation are carried out in parallel. The modeling approach adopted here consists in splitting the disassembly system into stations, each one having the same structure, and being represented by the same continuous Petri net. It constitutes a simple representation of the system. Under certain assumptions, this representation has allowed us to characterize analytically the stationary behavior of the system.

Quantifying the impact of AIDC technologies for vehicle component recovery

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