Manufacturing Information System.

Q1. Define Manufacturing Information System?

* It supports all production function.
* It supports all Operations function.
* Includes all activities relating to planning and control of the processes producing goods of services.
* Information systems used to plan monitor and control inventories, purchases and flow of goods & services.

Q2. Define the Computer integrated manufacturing?

* Computer integrated manufacturing is an overall concept that satisfies following objectives of Computer-based system in manufacturing.
* It simplifies production process and product design.
* The production process is automatic.
* It integrates all production process.

Q3. What is the goal of Computer integrated manufacturing?

* The goal of the Computer integrated manufacturing is to create a

1. Flexible.

2. Responsive and
3. Manufacturing Process.

* Those efficiently produce products of the highest quality.

Q4 Define the Material Requirements Planning?

* The manufacturing information system is used to help for plan the types of material needed in the production process is called a Material requirements planning.

Q5. Define the Manufacturing resource planning?

* Computer integrated manufacturing is also used to integrate material requirement planning with production scheduling and shop floor operations which is known as manufacturing resource planning.

Q6. Define Computer aided manufacturing?

* Computer aided manufacturing system are those that automate the production process.

Q7. Define Manufacturing execution system?

* Manufacturing execution system is performance monitoring Information system for factory operation.
* They monitor, track and control component involved in a production process.
* Manufacturing execution system includes:-

1. Shop floor scheduling and control.
2. Machine control and
3. Robotics control.

Q8. What are the benefits of using Computer integrate manufacturing?

o Flexibility to production process.
o Improved utilization of production facilities.
o Higher productivity.
o Better quality control from continuous monitoring.
o Improved customer satisfaction by quickly producing products to customer order.

Q9. Define Process control?

* Use of computers to control physical process.
* E.g. In petroleum, refineries, cements plants, steel mills, chemical plants, paper mills etc.
* It requires use of special sensing devices that measure temperature, pressure etc. continuously which are converted to digital form and relayed to computer for processing.

Q10. Define Machine Control?

* Use of computer to control the actions of a machine.
* Also known as numerical control.
* Machine control program converts geometric data from engineering drawing and instruction from process control into a numerical code machine tool.
* It may use a special purpose computer called programmable logic’s controllers (PLC’s).

Q11. Define Computer-aided Engineering?

* It is used to stimulate, analyze and evaluate design of products developed by CAD methods.
* In the computer-aided engineering initial drawing is refined and 3D graphics are provided.