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40 minutes machinę of type B

Figurę 2.29

Bicycle factory

Suppliers deliver the raw materials. First the frame and two pedals are assembled. This takes twenty minutes and is done by a machinę of type B. The other two assembly steps are defined in a similar fashion (see figurę 2.29). Finally, the end product is delivered after three assembly steps. The factory has three machines of type A, and seven machines of type B. Each of the machines has a capacity 1, that is, a machinę is either free or busy.

(a)    Model the factory in terms of a Petri net. Make surę to model the States of the machines (busy/free) explicitly and abstract from time.

(b)    Add time to model the temporal behavior. What is the maximał throughput per hour?

Workflow Process Definitions

Exercise 2.7 Insurance company

Insurance company X processes claims that result from traffic accidents with cars where customers of X are involved in. Therefore, it uses the following procedurę for the processing of the insurance claims.