@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00013089, author = {KIM, YoungWoo and INABA, Akio and SUZUKI, Tatsuya and OKUMA, Shigeru}, issue = {3}, journal = {IEICE transactions on information and systems}, month = {Mar}, note = {This paper presents a new hierarchical scheduling method for a large-scale manufacturing system based on the hybrid Petri-net model, which consists of CPN (Continuous Petri Net) and TPN (Timed Petri Net). The study focuses on an automobile production system, a typical large-scale manufacturing system. At a high level, CPN is used to represent continuous flow in the production process of an entire system, and LP (Linear Programming) is applied to find the optimal flow. At a low level, TPN is used to represent the manufacturing environment of each sub-production line in a decentralized manner, and the MCT algorithm is applied to find feasible semi-optimal process sequences for each sub-production line. Our proposed scheduling method can schedule macroscopically the flow of an entire system while considering microscopically any physical constraints that arise on an actual shop floor.}, pages = {583--593}, title = {Scheduling for a Large-Scale Production System Based on a Continuous and Timed Petri-Net Model}, volume = {E86-D}, year = {2003} }