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Industry 4.0 communication and data management technologies enable the development of distributed, product-driven control architectures, where intelligent products can play active roles in manufacturing control processes. Although simulation is a widespread practice to test, evaluate, compare and validate different design alternatives, there is still a lack of papers that assess and discuss the capabilities of available simulation software to meet and implement the requirements of such distribution as a design alternative. This paper provides an analysis of distributed, product driven control requirements and benchmarks them against the capabilities of two commercially available simulation software, namely FlexSim and AnyLogic. A comparison of the strengths and weaknesses of each software is provided through a case study.
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Attajer, A., Darmoul, S., Chaabane, S., Riane, F., Sallez, Y. (2021). Benchmarking Simulation Software Capabilities Against Distributed Control Requirements: FlexSim vs AnyLogic. In: Borangiu, T., Trentesaux, D., Leitão, P., Cardin, O., Lamouri, S. (eds) Service Oriented, Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing Systems for Industry of the Future. SOHOMA 2020. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 952. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69373-2_38
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