An integrated design flow for the joint generation of control and interfaces from a business model

•We drove an investigation in industry to identify a generic workflow for the design of sociotechnical systems.•We propose an integrated approach for an automated generation of controls and interfaces for sociotechnical systems.•We define models for each step of the approach.•We developed a tool, based on model driven engineering concepts, in order to implement the approach.•We generate control programs and interfaces for two study cases extract from our industrial experience.

The design of large systems suffers from communication problems inside design team and inconsistencies in design documentation. We have identified two concurrent but complementary approaches for design. The first is a bottom-up approach where the design is made by aggregation of standard components. The second is a top-down approach where the design is made by successive refining of a model.This paper offers an integrated design flow for the joint generation of controls and users interfaces for reconfigurable sociotechnical systems. In accordance with our industrial feedback our approach is based on a business model called the synoptic, and on a library of standard elements.We describe the tool Anaxagore, that implements this approach and with which one can generate, in few minutes, a command and an interface for two simple input models. The results of the generation are consistent with the specifications.