Extending an open-source discrete event simulation platform with new objects

Georgios Dagkakis, Ioannis Papagiannopoulos, Cathal Heavey

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Abstract

Lack of flexibility and the high cost of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Discrete Event Simulation (DES) software, are two of the main factors that deter organizations from using DES in their decision support. Open Source (OS) simulation tools can provide an adequate solution, since the user has full access to the source code and thus gets the chance to make modifications at multiple levels. ManPy (Manufacturing in Python) is a new OS library of DES objects implemented in SimPy. ManPy's scope is to provide modellers with generic, highly customizable OS simulation objects that can be connected to form a model in the same fashion of COTS simulation packages. Extensibility is one of the requirements of ManPy. In this paper we present an extension of ManPy objects, to allow the modelling of production lines, where the products flow in batches, can be decomposed into sub-batches and reassembled to the original batch.

Original languageEnglish
Pages77-86
Number of pages10
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Event2014 Operational Research Society Simulation Workshop, SW 2014 - Worcestershire, United Kingdom
Duration: 1 Apr 20142 Apr 2014

Conference

Conference2014 Operational Research Society Simulation Workshop, SW 2014
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityWorcestershire
Period1/04/142/04/14

Keywords

  • Discrete Event Simulation
  • ManPy
  • Open Source
  • SimPy

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