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By always comparing itself to supposed models of living systems, the current industrial approach is based on the molecular approach that attempts to explain the behavior of a system by the direct action of a function. Models are then developed to study the propagation of effects, their synchronization, etc., so the effort focuses on the diversity of functional responses in a system. However, it is not the functions performed by the various elements or agents and their scheduling that generate, produce or determine a good or service, but the interactions existing between these agents. Indeed, social control of an activity (or inactivity) condemns the agents involved in a system to interdependence and coexistence. This implies the implementation of an alternative using specialized agents (distributed functions) performing complementary production and control functions, following stacked structures (nested cell architecture) corresponding, themselves, to hierarchical sequences of operations (functional organization specific to a given level), with control and regulation steps. Their behavior in such a communicating system is dictated by the situation and condition of neighboring agents.