3. Reactivity to breakdowns

It is an illusion to claim that the systems whose control architectures we have presented are exempt from variations in their environment . In order to maintain an acceptable quality of service, operational safety must no longer be considered superfluous, but must be integrated into production systems, in order to be an additional asset in the competitive business environment. In the operating phase, this promising integration translates into the development and interaction of monitoring-supervision-control modules, enabling the system to reconfigure itself in order to pursue all or part of its missions. This notion of reconfiguration will be discussed in detail in...