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GRAFCET - Basic concepts

Author: Jean-Jacques DUMÉRY

Publication date: March 10, 2007

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5. Evolution rules

The GRAFCET evolution rules are the application, to the steps, of the principle of evolution between situations in the sequential part of the system.

In a grafcet, several steps can be active simultaneously, the situation then being characterized by the set of steps active at the moment in question. The conditions of evolution from one set of stages to another are then carried by one or more transitions, each characterized by: its upstream stages, its downstream stages, and its associated receptivity.

5.1 Initial situation

The initial situation is the situation at the initial point in time, and is therefore described by the set of steps active at that point in time. The choice of the initial situation is based on methodological considerations...

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