Trends Affecting Manufacturers and ERP
Part Three: Four More Trends
Dr. Scott Hamilton - October 8, 2003

ERP and Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM)

Individual standalone IT applications for structured tasks have been reasonably easy to justify and implement in a specific functional area. Some examples are a computer aided design (CAD) system in design engineering, a statistical process control (SPC) application in quality management, and an automated material handling system in distribution. Efforts to link these stand-alone applications to ERP are termed computer integrated manufacturing (CIM)...