ENTERPRISE MODELING FOR CIM INFORMATION

Computer Integrated Manufactunng (CIM) reformation systems have become extremely important to the global competitiveness of most manufactunng firms. And although much has been written about CIM development and implementation many problems still plague practitioners For example, lack of integration, islands of automation, sub-opttmmation of resources, and the mabdtty to migrate to future technology are a few types of problems Further, few methodologies have been developed that systematically address these issues In this paper, we outline an Object-Onented approach to modeling manufactunng enterprises The approach offers a procedure and techniques for defining CIM information systems architectures which could serve as bluepnnts for CIM development and tmplementauon in manufactunng enterprises