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Faced with increasingly competitive markets, the need to reduce lead times and the need to react to customer demands more effectively, manufacturing resource planning (MRPII) systems and computer-aided design (CAD) have become commonplace in manufacturing companies. These are, however, implemented in isolated and autonomous locations and without thought to their integration. Where integration is achieved technically, operational, philosophical and organisational issues have often presented an inaccurate and uncoordinated solution resulting in sustained bottlenecks between design, manufacturing planning and production processes. This document presents a case study of a manufacturing company facing these issues in a technology driven manufacturing strategy and proposes a framework to resolve them, based around matured Product Data Management (PDM) technologies. Learning the lessons from earlier direct application integration, the notion that integration of these systems is not only an issue of data but also business processes, as manufacturing companies embrace collaboration with their suppliers, customers and suppliers is also presented. This requires control, visibility and flexibility throughout enterprise information systems.
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Gao, J.X., Bursell, G. (2002). Product Data Management as a Key Component of Integrated Enterprise Information Systems. In: Kovács, G.L., Bertók, P., Haidegger, G. (eds) Digital Enterprise Challenges. PROLAMAT 2001. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 77. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35492-7_2
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