Proactive Simulation in Production Line Control

This paper deals with proposal of a proactive simulation model for a hybrid production system with an integrated MES used for safety, security, control, maintenance and service training with equipment similar to one utilized in a real industrial process. A proactive planning methodology can use information about real time changes in input data used for planning and determine a revised plan and line control. The proposed proactive procedure in this paper demonstrates a way to acquire data from an existing manufacturing process, which will be used to reach a production plan based on a combination of a simulation model and data acquired from MES. The revised control procedure will be send back to the MES to update the manufacturing process.