Benefits and Objectives of CIM

Benefits of CIM

CIM plays a vital role in the economy of the manufacturing system or enterprise. The benefits of CIM are shown as follows:

• Shorter time in launching latest product in the market.
• Inventory level gets reduced.
• Products quality enhancement.
• Competitiveness enhanced.
• Flow time minimized.
• Shorter vendor lead time.
• Improved scheduling performance.
• Rise in flexibility and responsiveness.
• Improved customer service
• Total cost minimized.
• Long term profitability increase.
• Manufacturing productivity improved.
• Customers lead time minimized.
• Work in process inventory get reduces.

Objectives

After studying this unit, you should be able to

• Described enterprise wide integration of CIM and concept of CIM wheel,
• Differentiate among CAM, CAD/CAM, & CIM,
• Explained the fundamental concepts of CIM,
• Know about the scope of CIM,
• Discuss operations flow in CAD/CAM, and
• Know about the different approaches for integration of CAD/CAM.