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Assessment of the NIST shop data model as a neutral file format

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Greg Harward,

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WSC '06: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation

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Published: 03 December 2006 Publication History

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This paper evaluates the shop data model (SDM) being developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in terms of its viability as a neutral file format (NFF) for the discrete-event simulation (DES) of manufacturing systems. ProModel simulation software served as the test case for this evaluation. Observations are also provided regarding the challenges that simulation vendors might encounter when implementing the proposed NIST SDM. This paper shows that the NIST SDM doesn't pose any limitations which would prevent it from syntactically representing a manufacturing simulation model, however, it is not without certain challenges and difficulties. While only 28% of the ProModel data elements are currently supported by the SDM, future enhancements to the SDM should allow the information model to serve as a foundation upon which a common information model and NFF for the DES industry could be built.

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Burnett GMedeiros DFinke DTraband MJefferson TFowler JIngalls R(2008)Automating the development of shipyard manufacturing modelsProceedings of the 40th Conference on Winter Simulation10.5555/1516744.1517053(1761-1767)Online publication date: 7-Dec-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1516744.1517053

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WSC '06: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation

December 2006

2429 pages

ISBN:1424405017

Editors:
L. Felipe Perrone
Bucknell University
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Barry G. Lawson
University of Richmond
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Jason Liu
Colorado School of Mines
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Frederick P. Wieland
Sensis Corporation
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General Chair:
David Nicol
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Richard Fujimoto
College of Computing, Georgia Tech

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Burnett GMedeiros DFinke DTraband MJefferson TFowler JIngalls R(2008)Automating the development of shipyard manufacturing modelsProceedings of the 40th Conference on Winter Simulation10.5555/1516744.1517053(1761-1767)Online publication date: 7-Dec-2008
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