Selection of methods, techniques and tools for system analysis and for the integration of CIM-elements in existing manufacturing organizations

Abstract

Implementation of computer-aided and integrated manufacturing systems requires one to consider all areas of the company in order to ensure a homogeneous and continuous evolutionary system development. Therefore, planners of computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) systems need a concept to come to a coherent selection of methods for those system development. In this paper a concept is introduced which allows an interdisciplinary team of system developers (engineers, industrial economists, personnel economists) a coherent choice of methods for system development. As examples, three methods applicable to the problem of CIM-implementation into organizations are evaluated.

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SOFIE Czernik is currently employed at BIBA. She received an MA in mathematics from the University of Katowice and a Dipl.-Inform in computer science from the University of Bremen. Her background experience includes participation in the ESPRIT Projects 909 (C-BAT), 2032 (CIM-ALIVE) and 5467 (CIM-Implementation( at BIBA. She was Project Manager in automatization systems and industrial television at ZKMPW ‘Carboautomatyka’, and also participated as a research engineer in the ‘Developing of a Mini-Computer’ at the Electronic Research and Development Centre of the Mining Industry, Poland.

WERNER QUINT is currently employed at BIBA as an R&D engineer and as Head of Planning and Justification of CIM systems. He received a Dipl.-Ing. in mechanical engineering at the FH Frankfurt and received a Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing. in production engineering at the University of Technology, Hamburg-Harburg and economics at the University of Hamburg. His background experience includes employment as a project engineer for plant design in the machine-building industry.