An approach to CIM system development whereby manufacturing people can design and build their own CIM systems
Robert E. Young, Johan Vesterager · International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing · 1991
In this paper we describe results that show how manufacturing people with little or no prior computer experience can design and build their own CIM systems with little or no computer programming. The approach is a means to overcome a potential problem in the unavailability of computer professionals needed to implement systems using a traditional approach. Our new approach uses system analysis and design technology initially developed by the US Air Force ICAM program that was enhanced and updated to allow a direct mapping from the system definition to a working implementation with little or no computer programming. The paper first discusses the need for manufacturing personnel to build their own systems, followed by a description of the analysis and design technology. It then describes eight industrial projects in six companies that successfully used the approach