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Appendix C: Integration in Manufacturing Systems Abroad
Appendix C: Integration in Manufacturing Systems Abroad
Pages 55-58
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Each of these projects has helped to develop a national terminology; a consensus among management, government, labor, financiers, and technicians on long-term aims and limitations; a framework for shorter-se'= company tactics; a general appreciation of the need for standardization and the limitations it imposes; and, finally, a sound foundation for training the CAD/CAM engineers of the future. Parallel with their active and enthusiastic participation in these long-term projects, the Japanese companies have developed mainly pragmatic methods for integrating machine tools and transport equipment into flexible manufacturing systems (FIRS)
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At the same time the factories are' exploiting the previous efforts invested in standardization by offering a broad spectrum of manufacturing "modules," "cells," and "islands," which can -- at a relatively low systems level -- be fairly easily linked and then integrated by high-level scheduling. At this time a proposal is in an advanced stage toward acceptance for the establishment of a national program on "Manufacturing Softwar Engineering." This will use the "Flexible Manufacturing System Complex with Laser" hardware as a test bed for the entire life-cycle of complete CIM sys tems .
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The prime members are Fraunhofer Institute for Production Planning and Design Engineering, Technical University of Berlin; the Laboratory for Machine Tools and Manufacturing Engineering, Technical University of Aachen, West Germany; the Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research, Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway; and the Central Institute for Industrial Research, Oslo, Norway. In addition, some 13 industrial companies in the two countries are participating in the program.
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It is widely appreciated that only the synthesis of the extant approaches, the deepening of our theoretical understanding, and, above all, the acquisition and sharing of much more practical experience can lead to a usable "science" of integration. References t1]
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