L. Whitman and B. Huff. Issues Encountered Between Model Views. Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing 1998. The implementation of intelligent manufacturing systems requires a comprehensive understanding of the system and its environment. Modeling and simulation is critical to this understanding.
Models are typically from one of five perspectives or views.
A static model is used to understand an enterprise or a system, and simulation is used for dynamic analysis. Typically, most projects do not consider the need for both a static and a dynamic model of a system. Most enterprises develop and even maintain multiple types of models for different purposes. If a single model can be used to drive other modeling purposes, then model maintenance and development could be reduced. A goal of this research is to achieve a master model of the system.