A development methodology for production systems with a new paradigm based on Petri nets and object orientation

Production systems modeling has been introduced in order to allow us to specify and to set up the means (methodological and technical) to guide systems designers for the analysis and design of integrated manufacturing systems (IMS). The study of methodologies used to realize IMS has led us to be interested in the object oriented approach. This paper presents a locally developed methodology based on the object oriented approach, the Use-Case methodology and Petri nets; this methodology is then validated on a flexible cell supervisor we have developed for AIPRAO