An evaluation of approaches to modelling and simulating manufacturing systems
评估了事件、活动和过程建模方法以及语言和数据驱动仿真创建方式，通过实际制造系统案例研究了仿真所需的方法和语言特性。
SUMMARY This paper presents an evaluation of the main established approaches to modelling and simulating manufacturing systems. These are the event, activity and process modelling methods, and the language and data-driven means of creating a simulation. The evaluation has been carried out by the use of case studies of actual manufacturing systems using different simulation languages to explore the methods and the language features necessary to simulate manufacturing systems. Twenty-five aspects of the methods and languages have been evaluated and these are presented and discussed.