Artificial K-Lines and Applications - Advances in Computational Science and Engineering - page 89

Fig. 4.b. Assembly line for processing boxes

the box and the second worker flattens the box further and places it on the moving belt
again. Then, the moving belt carries the box through an opening and the flattened box
reappears at the other side of the opening. After that, further processing of the box may
occur, but this is not relevant to our example.
A K-line of events that captures a possible process of the robot moving the box
through the opening is shown in Figure 5.

K-line KL1
Event in Node

Node ID

(robot) Move toward box 11

(Robot) pick up box 12

Move box toward opening 13

Move box through opening 14

Box passed through opening 15

Box appears at other side of
opening

16

Fig. 5. Robot K-line

A possible K-line of events that captures the process of the assembly line is shown
in Figure 6.