In this chapter, the authors present an approach for developing a simulation-tool-independent description of manufacturing systems and how to convert such a general model into simulation-tool-specific models. They show why we need standards for these discrete processes, what the state of the art is, why SysML has the chance to become a standard in modeling discrete systems, and how to use it. The authors present SysML and explain how to model discrete systems with it. For that, they explain the concept of domain-specific modeling in detail. They furthermore have a look at model-to-model transformations and its validation and verification. Finally, the authors examine different SysML modeling tools and how to improve the usability of SysML tools for engineers.
Towards a Domain-Specific Modeling Language for Extracting Event Logs from ERP Systems
