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
Programmable production management decisions and computers in british manufacturing industry
β Scribed by Clive H. Duprey; Robert Hope; John S. Oakland
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1982
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 598 KB
- Volume
- 6
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0360-8352
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