Modeling a production line using system modeling language (SysML)

• Main Author: Muhammad Al Amin Ismail.
• Other Authors: Georg Lothar Thimm
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Manufacturing::Plant engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/40245
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper studied the functionality and feasibility of the System Modeling Language (SysML) in the manufacturing sector. SysML is a computer language used in the computer science field for communication and presentation of ideas. The use of graphic and text as a communication medium has put SysML ahead of other modeling languages. SysML is designed to present complicated, complex systems with high technological-knowledge requirements into simple, uncluttered plan in an intelligible manner. The major advantage of SysML is the ability to show interconnectivity between systems in a system-of-systems model. This enables SysML to provide traceability upon modeling the system. SysML has been used on complex and advance systems of products such as hand-phones, hybrid vehicles and even military aircrafts. However, most of the systems modeled are those products that operate using discrete systems. This project challenges SysML competency in modeling a production line which is a sub-controlled multiple-inputs single-output system (continuous system) and also its traceability feature.