Requirements Of The Computer Aided Manufacturing Systems With A Special Focus On Mes Functionality

Optimization of machinery so that production setups are not required for small customizations which can be managed manually.

The JC Gear Company has decided to initiate a project aimed at automating its production planning and control system. Among the options, the company focuses on two alternatives: (1) purchasing the most suitable system off of the shelf and modifying it according to its individual production needs; or (2) developing a system

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In recent years, the requirements of commercial and industrial operations in the production of services and goods have been subject to vast changes. In the present era of globalization and increasing international competition, a trend away from vertically integrated organizations has become more and more evident. In fact, most companies nowadays tend to solely concentrate on their own core competencies, outsourcing different steps of the production. However, including a great many of other organizational units to the production systems, has lead to rising complexity in terms of the operations management (Plenert, 2012).

The success of any manufacturing company is dependent on its manufacturing system design. The system design concept has been the basic force in manufacturing advancement. Without manufacturing design, all manufacturing would be stuck in the “square wheel” era. The first system design was the invention of the forerunner of the modern factory nearly 200 years ago. New design concepts are continually improving and impacting the worlds manufacturing.

Automated manufacturing is another application of automation and by far, it is the most important and useful in the United States. This practice of automation is used to produced things in a factory way. Consequently, many of the products that consumers purchase are the result of automated manufacturing. Some of these products include automobiles, refrigerators, dishwashers and videogame consoles like the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3. Today there are numerous industries applying automated manufacturing including the airline, automotive, mining, oil and food production industries (Vassar).

Technological up gradation: the organization must look for latest trends and technologies for manufacturing products and assimilate the modern technologies for making standardised products. The computer era has arrived and it is offering integrated platform for business processes so the recommendation is to have integrated system for better access and synchronization among different departments.

Knowing the key players and their roles is crucial in order for microsystem to function as intended. In PMU, there are thirty-seven registered nurses. There are twenty-six patient care associates (PCAs), 2 secretaries, one-night supervisor, a floor manager, an educator and one Clinical Nurse Leader and one medical director. The unit is utilizing on-call staff. There is a medical doctor, psychiatrist, psychiatrist assistant present on the unit and are readily available at any time. There are also several social workers and case managers as well. The two secretaries are a male and female.

Despite the fact that there are better manufacturing technologies to be found in today's modern world, it is still quite difficult for every Tom, Dick and Harry in business to manufacture their own products. This is because the cost of setting up a manufacturing plant is significantly high; in addition, one requires a team of professionals with a high level of expertise in various aspects of manufacturing in order to have everything up and running as smoothly as possible.

Advanced Manufacturing is a multitude of different things that all fall under the same name. Advanced Manufacturing is using things such as automation, computation, software, sensors, and networks to manufacture products new and old. The advanced manufacturing today is much more than the image of assembly lines and forklifts, with most of the factories today being mostly automated. With most the factories having machines there need to be people who can operate, maintain, and repair the machines.

While mass customization is a viable option in manufacturing with digital factories and employing lean manufacturing designs, service firms have to employ a more productive environment to make mass customization profitable. Mass customization refers to using mass production technologies to quickly and cost-effectively assemble goods that are uniquely designed to fit the demands of individual customers (Daft, 2016, p. 271). The key challenge for service mass customization is to translate information about consumer preferences gained through market research into a format that can be easily used for service modularization decisions and customer-contact personnel training (Haas & Kunz, n.d., p. 603). In the service arena, mass customization becomes an ongoing configuration process with direct involvement of the customer coupled with professional advice by service personnel who understand the configuration rules and know them by heart. A clear understanding of the customer’s needs is required, as well as a requirement by service personnel to provide the customer clear and concise configuration options that strike the perfect balance between flexibility and complexity. Also, a continuous interaction between frontline contact personnel and the customer is a consequence that must be

Boeing made use of lean techniques in their production system and increased its production by 50% and also reduced its floor space by 40%. Assembling a Boeing 737 is a typical job. Workers should take 367,000 parts, an same number of bolts, rivets, other equipment and 36 miles (58 kilometres) of electrical wire and then keep them all combined to make an airplane [2]. Engineers to machinists were involved in lean (reducing waste) in the factory. By creating an assembly line, aircraft will pass through the workers were they going to concentrate on assembling. Allocating all employees in the factory building and organising special teams helped a lot to solve the errors in the assembly line [2]. In the assembly line, there are eight beacon lights which reflect the production status. If everything is good it shows green colour. If an error occurs, the worker will press a button and the green light will changes to yellow and the panel board will shows the category of the problem(which category it is related to). The worker will pass on to a computer and writes about the problem in a brief manner and the problem should be assigned to special team to solve it within 30 minutes if not, the light turns to purple and the assembly line will shuts down. This moving assembly is the icon of factory’s lean strategies.

Abstract— Everything that needs to be manufactured requires a ‘precise‘ Bill of Materials (BoM) which described exactly what specific items, components or parts composed the products that has been specified / ordered. For complex configured products, such as mass-produced passenger cars, the vehicle that is ordered by the client is configured to his / her requirements – on the basis of an all-possible option in a ‘configurable BoM‘ i.e. the 150% BoM from which all-possible ‘configured BoM variants‘ or the 100% BoMs can be created. The 150% BoM is just another name for a variant structure, or more specifically, a configurable BoM which contains the ‘art of the possible’ of a product line.

Manufacturing Sector is facing huge challenges. As customers demands are increasing for customized products based on individual requirements, new products have to make their way to market faster and faster and with more than one option. At the same time, more goods must be manufactured with steadily dwindling resources, as efficiently and ecologically as possible. In order to fulfil the customer 's requirements, research and industry are counting on flexible, intelligent automation. The concept: Machines, work pieces, means of transportation and semi-finished goods shouldn’t just contain embedded systems – that is to say, mini-computers – but should also be connected with each other and at

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