Manufacturing Adapter of Distributed Simulation Systems Using Hla

In this research, the distributed simulation system to easily evaluate a very large manufacturing system by synchronizing several different simulators is developed. We designed the distributed simulation system using High Level Architecture(HLA) as IEEE1516 standard. A manufacturing adapter to connect manufacturing system simulators with HLA using a plug-in style is proposed. The developed distributed simulation system is confirmed using a case to evaluate a hypothetical manufacturing system which produces motors. Three major commercial based manufacturing system simulators as QUEST, SIMPLE++, and GAROPS are connected using the developed manufacturing adapter. The storage model method to connect simulation models and synchronize the simulators is used in the case study. The case study is then carried out to evaluate the performance of the cooperative work.