Petri Net Structures for Automated Model Generation through Process Descriptions

Creating simulation models and running experiments requires expertise and significant effort. Modelling complex production systems by using Petri Nets, which have a simple formalism, leads to considerable modelling effort. To reduce the workload required, fundamental processes within a production system must be analyzed and represented as generic Petri Net structures to enable their automatic generation. These structures can serve as modular building blocks to construct arbitrarily complex systems. The broader objective is to enable the automatic generation of such, based on process descriptions within a simulation framework. Built on these findings, the necessary information for developing a specialized formal process description is derived, enabling the automated generation of Petri Net simulation models for production systems.