Distributed, Intelligent Information System for Automated, Integrated Manufacturing Systems

Abstract

As manufacturing systems have gravitated toward the Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) ideal, they have become more dependent on capturing relevant data, storing it, operating on it and passing it between the members of the manufacturing system. As the systems become larger, this means increasing amounts of data to manage, higher complexity of operations on these data, higher number of requests and a need for significantly higher reliability and availability.