COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING (CIM)

Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) encompasses the entire range of product development and manufacturing activities with all the functions being carried out with the help of dedicated software packages. The data required for various functions are passed from one application software to another in a seamless manner.

Computer integrated manufacturing benefits

For example,

• During designing product data is create and the data has to be transferred from the modeling software to manufacturing software without any loss of data.
• CIM uses a common database wherever possible and communication technologies to integrate design, manufacturing and associated business functions that combine the automated segments of a factory or a manufacturing facility.
• CIM reduces the human component of manufacturing and thereby relieves the process of its slow, expensive and error prone component. CIM stands for a fulfilment and methodological approach to the activities of the manufacturing enterprise in order to achieve vast improvement in its performance.
• This methodological approach is applied to all activities from the design of the product to customer support in an integrated way, using various methods, means and techniques in order to achieve production improvement, cost reduction, fulfilment of scheduled delivery dates, quality improvement and total flexibility in the manufacturing system.
• CIM requires all those associated with a company to involve totally in the process of product development and manufacture. In such a holistic approach, economic, social and human aspects have the same importance as technical aspects.
• CIM also incorporates the whole lot of empowering technologies including total quality management, business process reengineering, concurrent engineering, workflow automation, enterprise resource planning and flexible manufacturing.
• Manufacturing industries strive to reduce the cost of the product continuously to remain competitive in the face of global competition. In addition, there is the need to improve the quality, performance levels on a continuing basis and
  time on delivery. CIM has several software tools to address the above needs.

Manufacturing engineers are required to achieve the following objectives to be competitive in a global context.

• Reduction in inventory
• Lower the cost of the product
• Reduce waste
• Improve quality

Increase flexibility in manufacturing to achieve immediate and rapid response to

• Product Changes
• Production changes
• Process changes
• Equipment change and
• Change of personnel

CIM technology is an enabling technology to meet the above challenges to the manufacturing.

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