A system planning method based on templates for large scale manufacturing information systems

Abstract

In the practical manufacturing field, we need to develop large scale manufacturing information systems especially in the field of the Japanese steel manufacturing industry where CIM is the core management technology. But they require a large amount of time and manpower, and furthermore it is very difficult to manage their projects. Therefore, we propose analyzing and designing procedures based on a two dimensional template and their criteria for the large scale manufacturing information system architecture in order to ease the analysis and design. In the manufacturing system, there are two important elements which correspond to the two dimensions of the template. One is a functional category and the other is a management structure, and we show its effectiveness by applying this method to the system planning of large scale information systems in a steel manufacturing plant.