Manufacturing has been changing from a mainly inhouse effort to a distributed style in order to meet new challenges owing to globalization of markets and worldwide competition. Distributed simulation provides an attractive solution to construct cross enterprise simulations to evaluate the viability of the proposed distributed manufacturing enterprises. However, due to its complexity and high cost distributed simulation failed to gain a wide acceptance from industrial users. The main objective of this paper is to address these issues and present a new structured approach to implement distributed simulation with cost effective and easy to implementable tools. A simplified approach for model partitioning for distributed simulation is also included in the proposed approach. The implementation of distributed manufacturing simulation is illustrated with Arena, Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ) and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA).

翻译：为了迎接市场全球化和世界竞争带来的新挑战,制造业已从主要内部努力转变为分散式生产,分散式模拟为建立跨企业模拟以评估拟议的分散式制造企业的可行性提供了一个有吸引力的解决办法,然而,由于其复杂性和高成本分布式模拟未能获得工业用户的广泛接受,本文件的主要目的是解决这些问题,提出一种新的结构化方法,以具有成本效益和易于实施的工具来实施分散式模拟。在拟议办法中,还列入了一种简化的分布式模拟模型分割方法。与阿雷纳、微软信息库(MSMQ)和视觉应用基础(VBA)一起演示了分散式制造模拟的实施。