The Use of IDEFo to Link Design and Manufacture in a CIM Environment
International Journal of Operations & Production Management
ISSN: 0144-3577
Article publication date: 1 April 1989
Abstract
International competition is driving manufacturing executives to place an ever‐growing importance on the formulation of computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) strategies as part of their corporate plans. Structured analysis and design techniques, in particular IDEF (Integrated Computer Aided Manufacturing definition method), are becoming a vital tool in the analysis and implementation of such CIM strategies. This article positively demonstrates the technique and its ability to model the link between design and manufacture in a CIM environment. The approach relates interdependencies of planning for manufacture, design and process planning within a CIM strategy. In particular it establishes the position of computer aided process planning (CAPP) in CIM architecture and evaluates a CAPP package as a potential element of a CIM strategy. The application to which IDEFo, in particular, has been used clearly demonstrates its usefulness to manufacturers as a powerful aid to the development of detailed CIM strategies.
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Citation
Colquhoun, G.J., Gamble, J.D. and Baines, R.W. (1989), "The Use of IDEFo to Link Design and Manufacture in a CIM Environment", International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol. 9 No. 4, pp. 48-65. https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000001236
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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