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Computer Integrated Manufacturing

Computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) is an approach to manufacturing that uses computers to control the entire production process. In a CIM system, functional areas like design, planning, and accounting are linked through computers to factory floor functions like materials handling and operations management to provide direct control and monitoring of all operations. CIM allows for faster, more automated, and less error-prone manufacturing by integrating computers across the production process. Key challenges of CIM include integrating components from different suppliers, ensuring data integrity, and maintaining proper process control with computer systems.

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Computer Integrated Manufacturing

Computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) is an approach to manufacturing that uses computers to control the entire production process. In a CIM system, functional areas like design, planning, and accounting are linked through computers to factory floor functions like materials handling and operations management to provide direct control and monitoring of all operations. CIM allows for faster, more automated, and less error-prone manufacturing by integrating computers across the production process. Key challenges of CIM include integrating components from different suppliers, ensuring data integrity, and maintaining proper process control with computer systems.

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COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING

(CIM)
WHAT IS CIM?

Basically Computer Integrated


Manufacturing (CIM) is
the manufacturing approach of
using computers to control the
entire production process.
• In a CIM system functional areas such as design, analysis, planning, purchasing, cost
accounting, inventory control, and distribution are linked through the computer with
factory floor functions such as materials handling and management, providing direct
control and monitoring of all the operations.
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF CIM?
• CIM allows individual processes to exchange information with each other and initiate
actions.
• Through the integration of computers, manufacturing can be faster and less error-prone,
although the main advantage is the ability to create automated manufacturing processes.
As a method of manufacturing, three components
distinguish CIM from other manufacturing
methodologies:

• Means for data storage, retrieval, manipulation and presentation;


• Mechanisms for sensing state and modifying processes;
• Algorithms for uniting the data processing component with the
sensor/modification component.
• CIM is an example of the implementation of information and
communication technologies (ICTs) in manufacturing.
• CIM implies that there are at least two computers exchanging
information, e.g. the controller of an arm robot and a micro-
controller of a CNC machine.
Some factors involved when considering a CIM implementation are;
• The production volume,
• The experience of the company or personnel to make the
integration,
• The level of the integration into the product itself and the
integration of the production processes.

CIM is most useful where a high level of ICT is used in the company
or facility, such as CAD/CAM systems, the availability of process
planning and its data.
COMPUTER-INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING TOPICS:

• Key challenges;
-Integration of components from different suppliers:
-Data integrity:
-Process control:

• Subsystems in computer-integrated
manufacturing;
-Computer-aided techniques:
-Devices and equipment required:
-Technologies:
KEY CHALLENGES:
INTEGRATION OF COMPONENTS FROM DIFFERENT SUPPLIERS:

• When different machines, such as conveyors and robots, are using


different communications protocols. In the case of AGVs, even
differing lengths of time for charging the batteries may cause
problems.
DATA INTEGRITY:
• The higher the degree of automation, the more critical is the integrity of the
data used to control the machines.
• While the CIM system saves on labor of operating the machines, it requires
extra human labor in ensuring that there are proper safeguards for the data
signals that are used to control the machines.
PROCESS CONTROL:

• Computers may be used to assist the human operators of the


manufacturing facility, but there must always be a competent engineer on
hand to handle circumstances which could not be foreseen by the
designers of the control software.
SUBSYSTEMS IN COMPUTER-INTEGRATED
MANUFACTURING:
• A computer-integrated manufacturing system is not the same
as a "lights-out" factory, which would run completely
independent of human intervention, although it is a big step in
that direction.
• Part of the system involves flexible manufacturing, where the
factory can be quickly modified to produce different products,
or where the volume of products can be changed quickly with
the aid of computers.
Some or all of the following subsystems may be found in a CIM operation:

COMPUTER-AIDED TECHNIQUES:
• CAD (computer-aided design)
• CAE (computer-aided engineering)
• CAM (computer-aided manufacturing)
• CAPP (computer-aided process planning)
• CAQ (computer-aided quality assurance)
• PPC (production planning and control)
• ERP (enterprise resource planning)
• A business system integrated by a common database.
DEVICES AND EQUIPMENT REQUIRED:
• CNC, Computer numerical controlled machine tools
• DNC, Direct numerical control machine tools
• PLCs, Programmable logic controllers
• Robotics
• Computers
• Software
• Controllers
• Networks
• Interfacing
• Monitoring equipment
TECHNOLOGIES:
• FMS, (flexible manufacturing system)
• ASRS, (automated storage and retrieval system)
• AGV, (automated guided vehicle)
• Robotics
• Automated conveyance systems

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