CLIPS: experiments on model-driven engineering for production systems

The CLIPS project is a prospective approach of an implementation of a new type of automated production system. It aims to explore a range of academic and industrial promising propositions but not applied in the domain of industrial control system. For that it gathers industrials, R&D companies specialized in the field of component-based framework and researchers to define a methodology to deal with this purpose, defining several steps and guidelines that may help companies specifying a new project, taking benefit from both the model-driven engineering and component-based approaches. After a brief overview of the CLIPS project context, we present in this paper the main stages of the methodology. The last part handles the material taxonomy and the deployments over execution platforms