Product Specification in a Service-Oriented Holonic Manufacturing System using Petri-Nets

Service-Oriented Holonic Manufacturing Systems are now well known and widely studied. Every reference architecture of literature contains a holon dedicated to the description of the recipes of products to be manufactured. Typically, this description is a list of services to perform in order to obtain a finished good out of raw materials. This paper introduces an innovative way to describe product recipes using Petri nets. This description enables multiple variant recipes to increase flexibility in a Service oriented Holonic Manufacturing System.