Computer-Integrated Manufacturing

Vital to today's manufacturing processes, this book shows how CIM fits into the current manufacturing systems and how the technology is used to solve real-world industrial problems. The integration of basic product design techniques and manufacturing fundamentals and principles, along with a look at the changing operations and information systems that support CIM in the enterprise, make this book unique. It is the only technology level text in Computer-Integrated Manufacturing. Chapter topics include product design and production engineering; design automation: cad and computer-aided engineering; production/operations planning; manufacturing planning and control; material planning, production scheduling and operating systems; enterprise resource planning; production process machines and systems; production support machines and systems; machine and system control; and quality and human resource issues in manufacturing. For a global view of manufacturing, and the systems that enable the enterprise to manufacture products competitively.