The GRAI method, GRAI is short for Graphs with Results and Actions Inter-related, and the further developed GRAI Integrated
Methodology (GIM) is a modeling method of
Enterprise modelling
Enterprise modelling is the abstract representation, description and definition of the structure, processes, information and resources of an identifiable business, government body, or other large organization.
It deals with the process of unders ...
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The GRAI method was first proposed by
Guy Doumeingts Guy Doumeingts (born 1938) is a French engineer, Emeritus professor at the University of Bordeaux 1 and former Director of "Laboratoire d’Automatique, Productique Signal et Image" control theory, known for the development of the GRAI method and h ...
in his 1984 PhD thesis, entitled ''La Méthode GRAI'', further developed at the GRAI/LAP (Laboratory of Automation and Productics) of
University Bordeaux I, and followed by GRAI/GIM by Doumeingts and others in 1992.
The GRAI method can represent and analyze the operation of all or part of a production activity. The strength of the GRAI method lies in its ability to provide modelers can effectively model the decision-making system of the company, i.e. organizational processes that generate decisions.
In the GRAI methodology four types of
views had been incorporated: the functional view, physical view, decisional view and informational systems view.
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References
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Further reading
* Chen, D., and
G. Doumeingts. "The GRAI-GIM reference model, architecture and methodology." ''Architectures for Enterprise Integration.'' Springer US, 1996. 102-126.
* Chen, David,
Bruno Vallespir Bruno Vallespir (born 1960) is a French engineer, and Professor of Enterprise Modelling at the University of Bordeaux, working in the fields of production management, performance evaluation and enterprise modeling.Ejub Kajan eds. (2011) ''Electron ...
, and Guy Doumeingts. "GRAI integrated methodology and its mapping onto generic enterprise reference architecture and methodology." ''Computers in industry'' 33.2 (1997): 387-394.
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Doumeingts, Guy, Bruno Vallespir, and David Chen. "GRAI grid decisional modelling." ''Handbook on architectures of information systems.'' Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1998. 313-337.
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Doumeingts, Guy. "How to decentralize decisions through GRAI model in production management." ''Computers in Industry'' 6.6 (1985): 501-514.
* Girard, Philippe, and
Guy Doumeingts Guy Doumeingts (born 1938) is a French engineer, Emeritus professor at the University of Bordeaux 1 and former Director of "Laboratoire d’Automatique, Productique Signal et Image" control theory, known for the development of the GRAI method and h ...
. "GRAI-Engineering: a method to model, design and run engineering design departments." ''International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing'' 17.8 (2004): 716-732.
External links
The GRAI Method Part 1: global modellingby B. Vallespir, G. Doumeingts
The GRAI method Part 2: detailed modeling and methodological issuesby B. Vallespir, G. Doumeingts
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