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Although this is the original application of the methodology, it is not commonly used today for such purposes. Most people nowadays prefer a different world view for the description of factory automation processes, namely that of a process-oriented discrete event simulation, as this world view allows us to study better phenomena such as deadlock and starvation in a system.

Typical tools for such purposes would include ARENA, and there exists also a Modelica implementation of that tool and modeling methodology, called the ARENALib.

References:

1. Kelton, W.D., R.P. Sadowski, and D.T. Sturrock (2003), Simulation with Arena, 3^rd Edition, McGraw-Hill, 672 p.
2. Prat, V.S., A.Urquia, and S. Dormido (2006), ARENALib: A Modelica Library for Discrete-Event System Simulation, Proc. 6^th Modelica Conference, Vienna, Austria, pp.539-548.