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The reference models of high level analysis and design methods for manufacturing systems, such as CIM-OSA or GRAI, provide a good support at the conceptual and organisational levels, but do not help in to integrate existing software, or to develop and reuse code. Object Oriented methods are good candidate for the improvement or integration of the analysis, specification and development phases of manufacturing systems: they are recognised as providing an efficient support in order to shorten the code development phases, and to develop modular and reusable software. Nevertheless, most of the applications developped in the past years focus on very low level control structure design, and there is a lack in supporting tools for complex production activity control architectures. We suggest in this paper to define modular reference models of PAC modules in order to provide a framework for adaptable PAC systems design. The prototype of support system which development is now in progress intends to be a real “workstation” for the PAC systems designers, in order to better take into account important factors such as reuse of models and code, and integration of existing software.
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Grabot, B., Huguet, P. (1995). Reference Models for an Object Oriented Design of Production Activity Control Systems. In: Camarinha-Matos, L., Afsarmanesh, H. (eds) Balanced Automation Systems. BASYS 1995. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34910-7_29
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