What is the Computer Aided Production Management and Control and JIT from a Concurrent Engineering point of view?
Computer Aided Production Management and Control (CAPM) as a Concurrent Engineering discipline is concerned with the fact that static, or off-line generated “push-type” systems are responding to market pressures and are becoming more and more dynamic and real-time, or “pull-type”, or JIT (in other words, just-in-time). As a result, the available information to be processed becomes more reliable and accurate. Think for a moment of the enormous potential of an integrated system that can include quality records for each work piece, and a continuous process and design for manufacturing analysis of the manufacturing line.
