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Computer Integration Engineering Design and Production A National Opportunity (1984) / Chapter Skim
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1. Manufacturing, Computers, and Integration
Pages 8-13

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From page 9...
... in a manufacturing enterprise occurs when: · all the processing functions and related managerial functions are expressed in the form of data, · these data are in a form that may be generated, transformed, used, moved, and s tared by computer technology, and · these data move freely between functions in the system throughout the life of the product, with the objective that the enterprise as a whole have the information needed to operate at maximum effectiveness. The computer has been used in manufacturing for years.
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From page 10...
... In today's manufacturing environment in the United States, both managers and engineers often treat manufacturing as a unidirectional system in which data and information flow only downstream, from product design to production to shipping. Realization of the potential offered by CIM requires a data handling system that assures free access to data (though not necessarily to change data)
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From page 12...
... Should an impending malfunction be projected, they will take appropriate corrective action, including automatic replacement of defective modules in the system. Further, the machines will conduct automatic, in-process inspection of the product at each stage so that any impending deviations from the original specifications can be automatically corrected and the product held within prescribed tolerances.
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From page 13...
... Over the past several years, companies have integrated the data bases available on these local area network nodes with the central engineering data bases. Integration of these data ~ ~ and money by reducing the amount of rework rework was intervention , oases saved both time required.
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Key Terms

  • engineering design
  • operating conditions
  • design concepts
  • engineering data
  • design processes

  • central engineering
  • design process
  • supply standard
  • initial concept
  • assembled product

  • continually receive
  • including automatic
  • numerical control
  • original instructions
  • performance begin

  • prescribed tolerances
  • interactions required
  • direct numerical
  • necessarily occur
  • fault simulation

  • assures free
  • virtually eliminated
  • incorporate data
  • achieving computer
  • managerial functions

  • related managerial
  • work stations
  • logic design
  • final assembled
  • provide manufacturing


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