Article révisé par les pairs
| Résumé : | This paper outlines the state-of-the-art in computer-integrated manufacturing and shows how direct digital control, supervisory control, computer aided manufacturing, and expert systems, are interrelated, interconnected. The conclusions are based on experience not only in the steel industry, but also in various other industrial sectors. An attempt is first made to redefine what the needs are in order to manage and to steer an industrial plant, maximizing its profitability, improving the quality, and increasing the safety, and then to determine what the necessary functions are which have to be implemented to meet the needs and, in addition, what the available means are. Finally, the article tries to analyze what the risks are. |
