Abstract
The wire-drawing plant system is composed of many wires for drawing, some wire-drawing machines, many devices (such as supplying-stands, waiting-stands and so on), a ceiling crane and some operators. The wires have some requirements for drawing and character such as their weight and size. So, the wire-drawing process is very complex because of the requirements, the characters and states of each device and each machine which are busy or not. But planning and estimating for this wire-drawing production system are depend on the experience of engineers and operators of the system. Therefore computer-aided analysis tool for the system is required.
In this paper, we give a wire-drawing plant system model based on Petri nets which have capability of precise and graphic description for discrete event systems and develop a software for analysing the model. We propose a tool for simulating general wire-drawing plant systems. Also we ascertain that this tool enables the wire-drawing plant system to be analysed with a high degree of accuracy according to estimations made for a real wire-drawing plant.
