Abstract

In the design of manufacturing systems the consideration of resource usage, especially energy consumption, is getting more attention. However, the inclusion of all relevant physical processes in a unified modeling approach is a non-trivial task, if detailed analyses are required. The commonly used modeling approach for manufacturing systems is the discrete event modeling technique. However, models of physical processes are often continuous in nature and are modeled using ordinary differential equations or differential algebraic equations. Indeed, the investigation of such physical processes in manufacturing systems often demands a more specific consideration of process control operations, which are favorably modeled using state machines. To combine those different paradigms a multimodeling approach for manufacturing systems is proposed. The approach is illustrated by the example of a production line with an industrial furnace facility.