IDEF Selected Bibliography

AbsThis paper is dedicated to describing the efforts of the Small Integrated Manufacturing Enterprise (SIME) program at The University of Texas at Arlington. The research objective of the program is the development of a set of integration requirements for the generalized small CIE of the future. These requirements will be established using a reference model of "the successful small CIE of the future". The construction of a corresponding "AS-IS" model generated from the analysis of small manufacturing companies will also be described. In addition to developing a CIE architecture for small manufacturing enterprises, the program is producing a systems development methodology. This methodology will be packaged in the form of a "Do It Yourself Kit" which would introduce the small manufacturers to the technologies and philosophies incorporated in the proposed CIE architecture. In addition, it will suggest tools and techniques which will assist small companies analyzing their own organization and define a migration path from their current enterprise structure to one which is compatible with the proposed small integrated enterprise architecture.