Integrated factory management system

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 103 KB
• Volume: 3
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0951-5240
• DOI: 10.1016/0951-5240(90)90139-6

✦ Synopsis

Human-centred software for batch and semicontinuous process CIM Appropriate Computer Integrated Manufacturing Technology (ACiT) is a new software package enabling shopfoor CIM implementation in batch and semicontinuous process factories. Developed by BICC as part of the European Stategic Programme for Research and Development in Information Technology (ESPRIT), ACiT is the product of more than four years of collaborative research in the UK, Germany and Denmark and is already in use in several factories within the BICC and ITT groups.

ACiT is centred on the concept of 'factories within factories' a distributed cellular environment and is claimed to offer the benefits of just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing techniques not normally associated with batch and semicontinuous processes. The system's modular design allows gradual implementation, from a single cell to a whole factory.

BICC field trials, reported to ESPRIT last year, claimed a number of benefits for the system, such as: