โ Scribed by Jon Clark
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The origins of Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) lie in an engineering culture of the early 1980s fascinated by the ideal of a totally automated, workerless, mass production factory. This ideal has three limitations in reality. It under-estimates the different requirements of batch production industries: assumes that total automation is always desirable; and underplays the importance of links between manufacturing and the wider business. The paper examines Pirelli Cables's experience with CIM in a greenfield factory in South WaIes, tracing how and why the Company modified its original ideal towards a more incremental approach building in greater scope for employee intervention.
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