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:
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- customizing existing objects
- adding completely new objects to the list
What's included
- In the DREAM folder you can find three sub-folders:
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- 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.
How to get started
- To use the platform you need to:
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- Have Python installed.
- Clone our git repository (https://github.com/nexedi/dream) or download it into a folder in your computer.
- Run the setup script that is in the root folder (python setup.py install). This will install ManPy along with its dependencies (e.g. SimPy3)
- Then you can import ManPy objects as it is written in the examples, e.g.:
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- from dream.simulation.Queue import Queue or
- from dream.simulation.imports import Machine, Source, Exit
Dependencies
- DREAM uses the following Python libraries:
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- SimPy3
- NumPy
- SciPy
- xlrd
- xlwt
- rpy2
- The HTML5 graphical user interface uses the following javascript libraries:
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
Panos Barlas
Kazuhiko Shiozaki