Low cost automation and local CIMS the automation development direction for medial and small enterprise

Author

Wei Ji Chen ; Zhen Sheng Guo

Author_Institution

Fac. of Sci. & Technol., Univ. of Macau, Macau, China

fYear

1999

fDate

Aug. 31 1999-Sept. 3 1999

Firstpage

1598

Lastpage

1602

Abstract

In order to stay competitive in the world market, reforming manufacturing industry is essential. Indeed, it´s very important to adopt overall CIMS, Low Cost Automation (LCA) and Local CIMS (LCIMS) automation technology for reforming manufacturing industry and related industries as well. Overall CIMS model is only suitable for automation development in larger enterprises. LCIMS and LCA models are suitable for automation development at medial and small enterprises. A survey of overall CIMS, LCA and LCIMS and a case study of LCIMS for the garment industry are presented in this paper.

Keywords

clothing industry; computer integrated manufacturing; small-to-medium enterprises; LCA models; LCIMS models; automation development; automation development direction; garment industry; local CIMS; low cost automation; manufacturing industry; medial and small enterprise; Clothing industry; Computer integrated manufacturing; Design automation; Productivity; Low Cost Automation Local CIMS Architectures for Enterprise Integration Management and Control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control Conference (ECC), 1999 European

Conference_Location

Karlsruhe

Print_ISBN

978-3-9524173-5-5

Type

conf

Filename

7099541