Computer integrated manufacture
Abstract
An evaluation is made of features and performance characteristics for the CAD/CAM systems designated 'Electricad', 'CADAM', 'Systrid' and 'Euclid'. These systems have demonstrated time scale savings for product lines, as well as faster response to customers, greater work throughput, and significantly higher factory automation. These existing systems are compared with the next-generation, 'computer-integrated manufacturing' concept, which incorporates 'group technology' (GT). GT recognizes the similarities in the design and manufacture of discrete parts, rapidly retrieves existing pertinent practices data from the industrial data base, and attempts to achieve the economies of scale associated with mass production in a batch-production environment.
- Publication:
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Future Spring
- Pub Date:
- 1985
- Bibcode:
- 1985Futur.......18T
- Keywords:
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- Computer Aided Design;
- Computer Aided Manufacturing;
- Computer Graphics;
- Structural Design;
- Data Bases;
- Electric Equipment;
- Mechanical Devices;
- Engineering (General)