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CIM Characteristics

Computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) covers all activities related to manufacturing including product development, market analysis, manufacturing system design, component design, production planning, process monitoring, and data analysis. CIM aims to integrate all manufacturing and business functions through extensive use of computer applications, databases, and networking to reduce costs and lead times while improving product quality, production efficiency, and utilization of equipment and human resources.

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CIM Characteristics

Computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) covers all activities related to manufacturing including product development, market analysis, manufacturing system design, component design, production planning, process monitoring, and data analysis. CIM aims to integrate all manufacturing and business functions through extensive use of computer applications, databases, and networking to reduce costs and lead times while improving product quality, production efficiency, and utilization of equipment and human resources.

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CHARACTERISTICS OF COMPUTER

INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING
• • Computer integrated manufacturing covers
all activities related to the manufacturing
business, including:
• (a) Evaluating and developing different
product strategies.

• (b) Analyzing markets and generating


forecasts,
• , (c) Analyzing product/market characteristics and generating
concepts of possible manufacturing systems (i.e. FMS cells
and FMS systems),
• (d) Designing components for manufacturing (i.e.
machining, inspection, assembly, maintenance and all other
processes relating to the nature of the component and/or
product, i.e. welding, cutting, presswork, painting, etc.),
• (e) Evaluating and/or determining batch size, manufacturing
capacity, scheduling and control strategies relating to the
design and fabrication processes involved in the particular
product,

• (f) Analyzing and feeding back certain selected parameters


relating to the manufacturing processes, evaluation of
status reports from the DNC system,
• (g) Analyzing system disturbances and
economic factors at CIM component level as
well as of the total system,
• (h) Analyzing and providing data at the
appropriate level and time and in the
appropriate format.
• • CIM plan the production, control and the
operations, and it perform the various business
related functions needed in a manufacturing firm.
•
• • CIM is concerned more with the information
processing functions that are required to support
the production operations, and also, it deals with
automating the information-processing activities
in manufacturing.
•
• CIM reduces the manufacturing lead time, design time, production planning

time, number of hazardous jobs and the cost of production and maintenance

relating both to the manufacturing system as well as to the product.

• • CIM increases product reliability by programming quality at a desired

level (initiated and set by the top management) into every step and into

every level of the manufacturing enterprise. Also it increases the utilization

of equipment, and the involvement of well educated and able humans in the

manufacturing activity and design.


• • CIM involves extensive use of computer applications, computer data

bases, and computer networking in the company.

• • CIM includes all of the engineering functions of CAD/CAM, but it also

includes the business functions of the firm as well. Many of the

manufacturing engineering activities are supported by the CIM

computer system. For example: process planning is performed using

CAPP, and tool design is done on a CAD system, making use of the

product model generated during product design.


• • The ideal CIM system applies computer technology to all of the
operational functions and information processing functions in
manufacturing from order receipt, through design and production,
to product shipment.

• • The CIM concept is that all of the firm’s operations related to the

production function are incorporated in an integrated computer

system to assist, augment, and/or automate the operations


• • CIM is a complex, multi-layered system design for the
purpose of minimizing waste and creating wealth in the
broadest sense. “Waste” meaning various resources, such as
human labor, finances, time, machinery, energy and others.

• • CIM make the total process more productive and


efficient.

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