Automatic Building of a Repository for Component-based Synthesis of Warehouse Simulation Models

• Published in: Procedia CIRP Vol. 104; pp. 1440 - 1445
• Main Authors: Kallat, Fadil, Pfrommer, Jakob, Bessai, Jan, Rehof, Jakob, Meyer, Anne
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 2021
• Subjects: adoption; automatic simulation model generation; block stacking warehouse; component-based software synthesis; storage planning; block stacking warehouse; automatic simulation model generation; component-based software synthesis; adoption; storage planning
• ISSN: 2212-8271; 2212-8271
• DOI: 10.1016/j.procir.2021.11.243

Simulations are a common tool in the warehouse planning and adoption process for evaluating and comparing variants of a storage system. But simulation modeling is a complex and time-consuming task. Due to limited resources, often not all possible system variants can be modeled. A promising solution is the migration of an existing simulation model to enable component-based software synthesis. An inhabitation algorithm composes structural variants according to a synthesis goal given a repository of typed components. In this paper, we automatically generate a repository and synthesize simulation model variants using a block stacking warehouse simulation model as an example.