Objective
The purpose of this project was to substantially improve the integration of CIM with management information products and systems for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The principal goal of the project was to develop design rules to assist the task of interfacing data between factory-level CIM and management-level business systems in these types of enterprises.
The manufacturing process (factory-level CIM) was defined for the purposes of this project as product design, production process, product distribution, manufacturing plant, equipment, workforce, and the actual transaction level of the accounting process. The management process was defined as the reporting, analysis, and control elements used by management to co-ordinate the manufacturing process to ensure achievement of company objectives.
The approach adopted was to:
-specify the most significant data interfaces between factory-level and management-level processes for SMEs
-study appropriate data transfer methods for the interfaces at various stages of CIM development
-establish Design Rules for the specification of these commonly used interfaces
-develop prototype subsystems for data transfer using the Design Rules
-evaluate the benefits of the application of these Design Rules in a variety of industrial situations
-by widespread dissemination of project results, improve the common approach whereby factory-level CIM and business system markets are separately addressed by products and systems.
The purpose of this project was to improve the integration of computer integrated manufacture (CIM) with management information products and systems for small and medium sized enterprises (SME). The principal goal of the project was to develop design rules to assist the task of interfacing data between factory level CIM and management-level business systems in these types of enterprises.
A study of progress and implementation of CIM subsystems in companies in the UK and Ireland was carried out by making case studies and by reference to published survey results. This study led to the identification of industries which were likely to benefit from CIM, and to the priority interchange points selected for the development of experimental prototypes providing these linkages.
Exploitation
The design rules developed by the project and validated by the prototype tests have been submitted to the Task Force for final approval before publication. When published (by Springer Verlag) it will provide guidance to SMEs for the introduction of computer integration to factory and management levels. There are two main target audiences for these design rules: designers and integrators offering information technology systems to the market, and system users wishing to enhance the application of existing systems or seeking guidance on systems to ensure future integration compatibility.
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Ireland
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