Title :
A market survey of industrial requirements for product data management and manufacturing planning systems
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Ind. & Manuf. Sci., Cranfield Univ. of Technol., Bedford, UK
Abstract :
This paper presents the findings of a systematic investigation, regarding the industrial requirements and current use of product data management (PDM) and computer-aided process planning (CAPP) systems with an emphasis on assembly operations. A pilot investigation was first carried out by sending a questionnaire to a large number of manufacturing companies. Then further investigation was carried out on PDM (through telephone interviews of a selected number of companies) and CAPP (through structured interviews and postal questionnaire with a large enterprise), respectively. The statistic data obtained are processed and analysed
Keywords :
assembly planning; computer aided production planning; manufacturing data processing; assembly; computer-aided process planning; industrial requirements; manufacturing planning systems; market survey; product data management; statistic data; Companies; Computer aided manufacturing; Computer industry; Design engineering; Information management; Manufacturing industries; Manufacturing processes; Process planning; Research and development; Telephony;
Conference_Titel :
Assembly and Task Planning, 1999. (ISATP '99) Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Porto
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5704-3
DOI :
10.1109/ISATP.1999.782943
