SmartSim: An object oriented simulation program generator for manufacturing systems

SUMMARY

SmartSim is a simulation environment that can be used by manufacturing engineers as a computer aided design tool for designing manufacturing systems. SmartSim has been found to increase the ease with which simulation models can be constructed and modified. It is able to accomplish this due to the synergy of an icon-based user interface, availability of interactive animation, support for an object-oriented simulation world view, inheritance, a built-in taxonomy of simulation objects, and facilities for subsystem construction, archiving and reuse.