Cyber-Physical Production System (CPPS) decision making duration time impact on manufacturing system performance

Abstract

Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS) are inherent to i4.0 to enhance actual manufacturing system control and management processes, and, consequently, the decision making process. This paper presents research on the influence of decision making duration time in CPPS on manufacturing system performance, for different scheduling paradigms. Different scenarios were investigated considering different decision making duration times and different variations of the environment dynamics. Results show that with the increase of the decision making duration time, the completion time of the jobs given at the input, as one of the principal manufacturing system performance measures, increases. Also, considering stable environments, the completion time variation growth in function of CPPS decision making duration time is approximately linear, while when considering dynamic environments, completion time variation growth in the function of CPPS decision making duration time is nonlinear.

Keywords

• cyber-physical production system
• industry 4.0
• decision making duration time
• scheduling
• completion time
• environment dynamics