Distributed Control of a Manufacturing System with One-Dimensional Cellular Automata

Table 3

Simulation results for the PN model and the cellular automaton.

Case	Parts	Machine utilization (%)						Robot utilization (%)						Time steps
		M1		M2		M3		R1		R2		R3
		PN	CA	PN	CA	PN	CA	PN	CA	PN	CA	PN	CA	PN	CA
0	1	8.33	8.33	8.33	8.33	8.33	8.33	50	50	33.33	33.33	16.67	16.67	12	12
1	2	16.67	12.5	11.11	12.5	11.11	12.5	61.11	68.75	44.44	50	16.67	18.75	18	16
2	2	7.69	7.69	15.39	15.39	15.39	15.39	61.54	61.54	61.54	61.54	15.39	15.39	13	13
3	3	6.67	5.88	13.33	35.29	20	17.65	46.67	41.18	80	70.59	20	17.65	15	17
4	3	8.33	6.67	8.33	6.67	25	20	41.67	33.33	91.67	73.33	25	20	12	15
5	4	6.25	55.56	12.5	11.11	18.75	16.67	43.75	38.89	75	66.67	25	22.22	16	18
6	4	5.26	4.55	10.53	50	21.05	18.18	42.11	36.36	78.95	68.18	21.05	18.18	19	22
7	5	8.33	7.69	12.5	11.54	25	19.23	58.33	53.85	75	69.23	20.83	19.23	24	26
8	5	4.76	7.69	14.27	42.31	42.86	19.23	47.62	53.85	85.71	69.23	23.81	23.01	22	26