As integrated manufacturing automation starts to take real shape over the next two years, manufactures and vendors alike will face new, much higher levels of complexity because of the interaction and interdependence of previously separate systems.
Nowadays science, technology, industry can hardly be imagined without electronic computers, without automation. The electronic equipment grows in number from day to day.
The main progress in the development of the computer technology is the creation of microprocessor and microcomputer. The tiny computing devices can control complex operations. Our industry has already started mass production of microprocessors and microcomputers which are of great help to man everywhere.
Invention of electronics is one of the greatest achievements of mankind. The significance of it can be compared with invention of steam-engine at the end of 18th century and utilization of atomic energy.
It’s the complexity of manufacturing itself and it has always existed, but CIM (computer integrated manufacturing) will make it acutely visible because CIM will automate it.
This has never happened before, not once in the whole history of computing. This complexity will require not just more computing but new kinds of computing-artificial intelligence (AI).
It’s no accident that the pioneers – those manufactures and vendors on the leading edge of CIM – implementing all kinds of AI applications, most notably expert systems and machine vision. It’s this kind of computing – in which machines approach ability to think and learn where they actually acquire a sort of experience over time – that will eventually bring computer integrated manufacturing to its full potential.
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