Petri net macro-models of the product/production system development process

The assessment of the impact of product and production process development is in actual problem of Companies; indeed, they must know at the earlier stage of the development process, if the development is possible or not. We have proposed in previous works a general method to make the assessment before its realisation. This method needs a simulation model of product/production system development process. But the building of this model his to be easier. That is why we propose in this communication to construct macromodels: Petri net macro-models. Their particularisation enables to obtain the development process model of a case study, which is used for the assessment of development impact. In this paper, we develop the principles of the Petri net macromodels building and their particularisation to obtain the development process model. After these presentations, we detail an example.