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ManPy overview
ManPy stands for "Manufacturing in Python" and it is a layer of Discrete Event Simulation
(DES) objects built in SimPy (http://simpy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/).
It is built within DREAM project (http://dream-simulation.eu/)

Scope
The scope of the project is to provide simulation modellers with a collection of open-
source DES objects that can be connected like "black boxes" in order to form a model. This

collection is desired to be expandable by giving means to developers for:


customizing existing objects
adding completely new objects to the list


What's included

In the DREAM folder you can find three sub-folders:


simulation: contains all the simulation objects that are built in SimPy and also 2 python scripts to read inputs and run the simulation. Support documents and example inputs are provided in subfolders
platform: contains code related to the platform and the GUI that is also built and cooperates with the ManPy simulation engine
tests: contains code for unit-testing


Current Status
DREAM is a project which kicked off in October of 2012 and finishes in September of 2015.
ManPy is an ongoing project and we do not claim that it is complete. The platform will be
expanded and validated through the industrial pilot cases of DREAM. Nevertheless, we
launch the project in order to attract the interest of simulation modellers and software
developers.
Note that ManPy currently uses SimPy2 (http://simpy.sourceforge.net/old/). Soon it will be upgraded to the newest version SimPy3 (http://simpy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/).

How to get started

To be able to run the documentation examples just copy the dream/simulation to your Python folder. Then you can import ManPy objects as it is written in the examples, e.g.:


from simulation.Queue import Queue or
from simulation.imports import Machine, Source, Exit


If you copy the whole dream folder, then the import should change to something like from dream.simulation.Queue import Queue. If you want to rename the folder it can be from path.to.my.new.folder.Queue import Queue.

Dependencies

ManPy uses the following Python libraries:


SimPy2
NumPy
SciPy
xlrd
xlwt


Documentation
Documentation for ManPy can be found in this repo in the root directory.

Acknowledgements
ManPy is product of a research project funded from the European Union Seventh Framework
Programme (FP7-2012-NMP-ICT-FoF) under grant agreement n° 314364. The project name is
DREAM and stands for "Simulation based application Decision support in Real-time for
Efficient Agile Manufacturing". More information about the scope of DREAM can be found in
http://dream-simulation.eu/.

Copyright and license
ManPy is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).

Authors
Georgios Dagkakis
Jerome Perrin
Sebastien Robin
Ioannis Papagiannopoulos
Kazuhiko Shiozaki