Invariant system of technological preparation of production

An integrated system was developed and is now gradually being introduced, consisting of two great segments: systems support and functional subsystems. The systems support segment includes the metamonitor system, data base and general applications programs; functional subsystems include the information retrieval, blank planning, technological process planning, control program development and equipment design sections. A structural diagram of the integrated system for preparation of production is presented. The metamonitor system is said to have several advantages over standard operating systems: reduction in labor consumption by a factor of 10 to 20, dynamic distribution of RAM for programs and data structures, utilization of dynamic files with up to 8 levels of subfile structures and modeling of virtual memory, utilization of associative data structures, timely introduction of alterations and additions to the subsystem, performance of jobs in stages utilizing memory equal to the maximum length of memory for a single instruction, possibility of dynamic attachment and detachment of terminals. The data base is briefly described.