Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM)
Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM)
Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM)
Manufacturing
Systems
Learning objectives
1) Marketing:
The need for a product is identified by the marketing
division.
The specifications of the product, the projection of
manufacturing quantities and the strategy for marketing
the product are also decided by the marketing section.
2) Product Design:
The design department of the company establishes the
initial database for production of a proposed product.
In a CIM system this is accomplished through activities
such as geometric modeling and computer aided design
while considering the product requirements and
concepts generated by the creativity of the design
engineer.
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3) Planning:
The planning department takes the database established
by the design department and enriches it with
production data and information to produce a plan for
the production of the product.
Planning involves several subsystems dealing with
materials, facility, process, tools, manpower, capacity,
scheduling, outsourcing, assembly, inspection, logistics
etc.
In a CIM system, this planning process should be
constrained by the production costs and by the
production equipment and process capability, in order to
generate an optimized plan.
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4) Purchase:
The purchase departments is responsible for placing the
purchase orders and follow up
Ensures quality in the production process of the vendor
Receives the items produced, arrange for inspection and
supply the items to the stores or arrange timely delivery
depending on the production schedule
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5) Manufacturing Engineering:
Manufacturing Engineering is the activity of carrying
out the production of the product, involving further
enrichment of the database with performance data and
information about the production equipment and
processes.
In CIM, this requires activities like CNC programming,
simulation and computer aided scheduling of the
production activity.
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6) Warehousing:
Warehousing is the function involving storage and retrieval
of raw materials, components, finished goods as well as
shipment of items
In today's complex outsourcing scenario and the need for
just-in-time supply of components and subsystems,
logistics and supply chain management assume great
importance.
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7) Finance:
Finance deals with the resources pertaining to money.
Planning of investment, working capital, and cash flow
control, realization of receipts, accounting and allocation of
funds are the major tasks of the finance departments
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8) Information Management:
Information Management is perhaps one of the crucial tasks
in CIM.
In this context, it involves master production scheduling,
database management, communication, manufacturing
systems integration and management information systems.
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1.3 Automation
Benefits of Automation
• There are several benefits of automation which
includes:
– Increased rate of production
– Reduced cost of labor
– Reduces operation time and work handling time
– Bridges the gap towards the trend of labor toward the
service sector
– Enhanced safety
– Improved product quality
– Reduced manufacturing lead time
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Disadvantages of Automation
• Despite the several benefits that automation has,
the following are some of its shortfalls:
– Unemployment rate increases
– Technical Limitation
– Security Threats/Vulnerability
– Unpredictable development costs
– High initial cost
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Relationship between automation and CIM
1) Permanent/Fixed Automation
This control system is designed to perform a
specific task
Functions of control circuit is fixed and permanent
It will be complicated if we want to do other task
apart from the existing task
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2) Programmable /Flexible Automation
Programmable automation
or flexible automation is a
complex control system that
can perform several tasks
Functions of the control
circuit is programmed by the
user and can be modified.
When the task to be
performed by machines
changed, changes only need
to be done by making
modifications to the machine
control program
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Comparison Between Fixed And Flexible Automation System
Review Questions