Fundamentals of computer-integrated manufacturing
Fundamentals of computer-integrated manufacturing
The cellular manufacturing evolution
CIE '96 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Computers and industrial engineering
Grouping genetic algorithms: an efficient method to solve the cell formation problem
Mathematics and Computers in Simulation - Special issue from the IMACS/IFAC international symposium on soft computing methods and applications: “SOFTCOM '99” (held in Athens, Greece)
Dictionary of Advanced Manufacturing Technology
Dictionary of Advanced Manufacturing Technology
Material Requirements Planning: The New Way of Life in Production and Inventory Management
Material Requirements Planning: The New Way of Life in Production and Inventory Management
Is it an Agent, or Just a Program?: A Taxonomy for Autonomous Agents
ECAI '96 Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Agents III, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages
Development of an agent-based Virtual CIM architecture for small to medium manufacturers
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
Conceptual model of a future farm management information system
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
System monitoring through element flow reasoning
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
The control of myopic behavior in semi-heterarchical production systems: A holonic framework
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
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In today's economic environment, enterprises that solely rely on traditional technologies cannot meet dynamic customer demands. Hence, proactive enterprises seek the application of intelligent and integrated manufacturing systems in order to meet the customer's demands and be the winners in the competitive market. Although, with available technologies and systems in Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) and its related technologies, the application of CIM in manufacturing enterprises is a reality and can meet the need of the enterprises; today mangers in many enterprises are confused with varying technologies and new terminologies that prevail in the public domain. To make adoption and implementation issues complicated, there are many researchers pursing similar concepts but in different names to solve part of the issues that are or can be addressed by a CIM system. Therefore, this paper summarises the evolution of manufacturing technologies that are associated with developments towards a CIM system, and reviewed some of the new terminologies and technologies, which were proposed during the last four decades. This review is aimed at overcoming the confusion with the new terminologies that have been generated in the past four decades. Further, this paper articulates that all these new proposals are in deed the sub-system or sub-solutions of CIM. Finally, this article focuses on latest research developments in CIM and provides a stepwise justification methodology towards a CIM system for a small or a medium enterprise.