Deadlock control of automated manufacturing systems based on Petri nets—A literature review

ZW Li, NQ Wu, MC Zhou - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deadlocks are a rather undesirable situation in a highly automated flexible manufacturing
system. Their occurrences often deteriorate the utilization of resources and may lead to …

Scheduling of resource allocation systems with timed Petri nets: A Survey

B Huang, M Zhou, XS Lu, A Abusorrah - ACM Computing Surveys, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Resource allocation systems (RASs) belong to a kind of discrete event system commonly
seen in the industry. In such systems, available resources are allocated to concurrently …

Heuristic scheduling of batch production processes based on petri nets and iterated greedy algorithms

Z Zhao, S Liu, MC Zhou, D You… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wire rod and bar rolling is an important batch production process in steel production
systems. A scheduling problem originated from this process is studied in this work by …

Pareto-optimization for scheduling of crude oil operations in refinery via genetic algorithm

Y Hou, NQ Wu, MC Zhou, ZW Li - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the interaction of discrete-event and continuous processes, it is challenging to schedule
crude oil operations in a refinery. This paper studies the optimization problem of finding a …

Patient flow modeling and optimal staffing for emergency departments: A Petri net approach

J Wang - IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Patient flow is the movement of patients through a healthcare facility. Over the past decades,
healthcare service providers have spent tremendous effort in optimizing patient flow and …

Design of a maximally permissive liveness-enforcing Petri net supervisor for flexible manufacturing systems

YF Chen, ZW Li, M Khalgui… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deadlock prevention plays an important role in the modeling and control of flexible
manufacturing systems (FMS). This paper presents a novel and computationally efficient …

Schedulability analysis and optimal scheduling of dual-arm cluster tools with residency time constraint and activity time variation

NQ Wu, MC Zhou - IEEE Transactions on Automation Science …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With wafer residency time constraint of cluster tools in semiconductor manufacturing, activity
time variation can make an originally feasible schedule infeasible. Thus, it is difficult to …

Process modeling for smart factories: using science mapping to understand the strategic themes, main challenges and future trends

MK Sott, LB Furstenau, LM Kipper… - Business Process …, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the relationships between process modeling
and Industry 4.0, the strategic themes and the most used process modeling language in …

Optimal one-wafer cyclic scheduling and buffer space configuration for single-arm multicluster tools with linear topology

L Bai, N Wu, Z Li, MC Zhou - IEEE Transactions on Systems …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work studies the scheduling problem of a single-arm multicluster tool with a linear
topology and process-bound bottleneck individual tool. The objective is to find a one-wafer …

Petri net-based approach to short-term scheduling of crude oil operations with less tank requirement

SW Zhang, NQ Wu, ZW Li, T Qu, CD Li - Information Sciences, 2017 - Elsevier
With the interaction of discrete-event and continuous processes, the short-term scheduling
problem of crude oil operations is essentially combinatorial. Thus, it is preferred to develop …