... Limited 1992 Expert systems Knowledge‐based systems Manufacturing Production scheduling Simulation Computer systems Interfaces Modelling IJOPM 12,11 A Knowledge-based Simulation System for Manufacturing Scheduling 4 Received August 1991 Revised February 1992 Shanthakumar Palaniswami...

... 1991 Computer systems Modelling Systems analysis Computer simulation IJOPM 11,4 DSSL II: A Powerful Tool for Modelling and Analysing Complex Systems 44 Accepted September 1990 Kazem Chaharbaghi Middlesex Business School, London, UK Introduction One of the major questions that all...

... firms, the information systems are not necessarily so (Figure 1). In deciding what computer systems are needed, it is possible to form a fourlevel hierarchy of computer requirements based on Resource Planning, Manufacturing Control, Monitoring and Supervisory Control and on Dedicated Equipment Control...

... Conference on Manufacturing Technology: Its Integration and Management, Sunderland, March, 1989. Technological change Computer systems Implementation Computer technology Manufacturing ...

.... and Rosenthal, S.R., "Flexible Manufacturing Systems Require Flexible People", Manufacturing Roundtable Research Report Series, Boston University, School of Management, 1986. Computer systems Flexibility Quality control Rationalization Production systems Electronics ...

... to 34 per cent. © MCB UP Limited 1989 Computer modelling Computer systems Control systems Production planning Control Engineering Concepts as a Guide to Improved Production Control: A Make-for-Stock Case by David Price Management Centre, University of Bradford, UK The reduction...

... with such computer systems. Though the symptoms are somewhat different depending on whether we are concerned with large or small companies, the root cause is the same: a lack of any clear philosophy of what production management systems do and how they should be designed. In addition companies face a need...

... of CIM and is here illustrated by a company‐wide application involving CAPM. Computer systems Education Operations management CIM and the Integration of Users, Vendors and Educators by David Rhodes CIM Institute, Cranfield, UK CIM and the Integration of Users, Vendors and Educators 27 1...

... Computer Systems Decision Support Systems Facility Acquisition 36 A Decision Support System for Facility Acquisition by L. Brennan, W. Cahill and J. Sheil University College, Galway, and *Digital Equipment Corporation, Galway, Ireland Received March 1986 Revised September l986 Introduction Facility...

... to operations managers with the microcomputer, so that the flexibility and simplicity of manual systems can be preserved. The idea is based on three contentions; that the data structure itself must represent the business operations; that the operations on the computer system must initiate basic manual practices...