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Volume 1, Issue 4
1 April 1990
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Integrated Manufacturing Systems
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Research Article| April 01 1990

On the way to CIM

Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-583X
Print ISSN: 0957-6061
© MCB UP Limited
1990
Integrated Manufacturing Systems (1990) 1 (4): 196–198.
https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000002074

Discusses the upgrading of a Hampshire IBM plant to CIM operation to take advantage of the UK information technology market. Considers the CIM programme from the cell level, the goals for the plant, and the results of upgrading to CIM. Concludes that CIM has improved output and quality while reducing inventory with a constant workforce and offers the potential for simultaneous engineering.

Keywords: Cellular manufacturing, Computer industry, Computer‐integrated manufacturing, IT, United Kingdom
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