Design of a Manufacturing Resource Information System

Abstracts Manufacturing resources will be modelled in computer in the future. Standards as STEP and future enhancements of STEP will play an important role. Documentation of manufacturing resources will be distributed to customers in the form of active models in computer. This will give new possibilities for developing more advanced applications for planning etc. in manufacturing. It will influence the design of manufacturing resource info-systems. The design of manufacturing info-system must fulfil a number of requirements like; it should be easily maintained and updated with new resources, new product generations should be easily and directly introduced, planning applications etc. should be easy to update and exchange.