Performance modelling and availability analysis of a milk pasteurising system using Petri nets formalism
by Narendra Kumar; P.C. Tewari; Anish Sachdeva
International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling (IJSPM), Vol. 15, No. 5, 2020

Abstract: The focus area of this work is integrating reliability, availability, and maintainability (RAM) aspects into the conceptual process design of a real industrial system. Quantitative performance analysis has been carried out using Petri nets (PN) approach. In the present study, availability is considered as a performance measure which has been used as an indicator of the reliability and maintainability of the plant. The availability is considered in the process design stage for sorting different design alternatives. The proposed technique suggested in this paper provides a better way of understanding the behaviour of a system under varying operating conditions. It will also help practitioners in deciding upon maintenance strategy so that operation and maintenance cost can be optimised. Stochastic Petri nets (SPN) has been used to model the possible interactions among all active or parallel equipments in the system. Performance parameters have been evaluated using modelling and simulation software GRIF of Petri module.

Online publication date: Sun, 01-Nov-2020

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