Design methodology for advanced manufacturing systems

Abstract This paper presents methodology for advanced manufacturing systems (AMS) design. After the presentation of the problematic to get specifications of AMS, we make a complete survey on conceptual models used in such methods (CAM.i, NBS, GRAI), then the various tools (SADT, PETRI nets, IDEFO, SATT) and the tools and methods for each subsystems: decisional (GRAI), informational (entity/relationship, SSAD, CACI, IDEF1, Merise) and physical (GRAFCET, GEMMA, MFM, IMMS). In the last part we present in detail the GRAI method and new developments.