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With respect to the mentioned facts an efficient
and application-oriented modelling of the current
state of the production system with a method called
Method for Multi-Scale Production System
Modelling (MePro) is supported (Figure 3).
6 ROADMAP TO MEPRO
The development of a method for structured and
multi-scale modelling of an existing production
system is a new and complex research topic where
future steps are of huge interest. Thus, the next
research steps for building the foundations of MePro
are the analysis and evaluation of:
• System theory for production system modelling;
• Application fields for production system modelling
and of existing modelling methods;
• Existing production system resource libraries;
• Metamodels for modelling processes;
The research results will be merged in a MePro.
Different challenges have to be considered on this
way:
• Development of criteria for application-oriented
modelling method selection;
• Development of workflows for an application-
oriented modelling of a production system;
• Development of a supporting resource library with
predefined and/or configurable objects and
interdependencies.
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