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Workflow systems have benefited the enterprise and customer in many aspects. But with the increasing complexity of the system, workflow design becomes a complicated and time-consuming process. In this paper, we model the system based on the Hierarchical Colored Petri Nets (HCPN) to avoid the complexity of the system, and the super nets of the model are abstracted as independent components to increase the flexibility, acceptability and maintainability of the system. Another important characteristic of this model is its convenience for reuse and workflow mining. The development process of the overhead traveling crane was given to demonstrate the proposed method.
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Zhou, F., Bo, RF., Huang, HZ. et al. Hierarchical Colored Petri Nets based components for workflow systems. J Mech Sci Technol 20, 1527–1533 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02916256
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