(90min)
Experiment scenario 1 (30 min)
Ideate phase
- Organize students into groups so each group operates one type of machine
- Students should define organization protocol (will be orders or resource-based)
- Students should ideate on solutions to problems from the defined phase
- Each group must provide a sequence diagram (SC) defining the communication flow between peers in the network
- Each group must produce a flowchart (FC) of the client algorithm to handle its operations.
Examples of SC AGV and assembly machine
Prototype
- Students run the scenario and play their assigned roles in the experiment
- Each role played by a student or group of students demands that they manually simulate the behavior of the assigned entity
- Press Machine
- before starting 10 bolts represented by 10 paper tickets should be available
- it waits for incoming messages
- it must follow the production constraints 2 minutes for one product
- Lathe machine
- before starting 10 nuts represented by 10 paper tickets should be available
- it waits for the incoming messages
- it must follow the production constraints 1 minute for one product
- Assembly machine
- it waits for the incoming messages
- it must follow the production constraints of 30 seconds for one assembly
- at the end of the process, the bolt and nut ticket should be stamped together which represents the finished product
- AGV
- it waits for the incoming messages from other entities
- it must follow the movement constraints for each route
- Students conclude the experiment when all 10 products are assembled
- They should write the findings, especially regarding troubles and potential bottlenecks
Experiment scenario 2 (60 min)
Ideate phase
- Organize students so there are more production units of the same type
Prototype
- Students run the scenario and play their assigned role in the experiment
- Adjust the amount of initial resources to the time constraints of this course module
- Students conclude the experiment with a report on their findings