... Limited 1997 Computer‐integrated manufacturing Cost/benefit analysis Electronic data interchange Engineering Integration In a recent survey of presidents and CEOs of manufacturing industries, “inadequate planning or lack of vision” was referred to as one of the chief obstacles to more...

...Jim Rook; Sa’ad Medhat The benefits associated with implementing concurrent engineering mean that more and more companies are looking to use it for their new product introduction process. Previously, methods for monitoring product development have included the use of metrics. “Predictive” metrics...

...Nigel Ware Manufacturing and engineering depend heavily on computers for many low‐level operations, including design, resource planning and production scheduling. But only a few companies have implemented the sort of enterprise‐wide computerized planning/project management found in other industries...

...John C. Moore The proliferation of workstations throughout the engineering and manufacturing industries generally means that the tremendous amounts of data that are becoming available need to be managed in an efficient and integrated way. Examines the organizational, financial and technical...