Proposal and experimentation of an analysis grid to map knowledge of the factory of the future

Abstract : An industrial change is necessary to respond to the environmental, societal and economic challenges. The aim of this paper is to offer and test a methodology that will identify and structure studies that are relevant to the industrial mutation. This scientific approach is based on the analysis of state-of-theart definition of the factory of the future. A specific grid and three different data collection methods have been experimented in three universities of technology in France. The results of this study lead us to prepare a comparative analysis of the obtained results. They show the interests and limits of this approach and its clarity.