Importance of CIM

CIM is important to an organization in achieving the following goals:

• More productive and efficient processes.
• Increase product reliability.
• Decrease cost of production and maintenance.
• Reduce number of hazardous jobs.
• Increase involvement of educated and able humans in manufacturing and design.

Functioning of CIM

• Evaluating and developing different product strategies.
• Market analysis and forecasting.
• Analysing product / market characteristics &generates concept of possible manufacturing system (FMS & FMC).
• Designing and analysing components for machining, inspection, assembly and other processes.
• Evaluating and determining batch sizes, manufacturing capacity, scheduling and control strategies.
• Analysis and feedback for manufacturing processes.
• Analysis of system disturbances and economic factors.

Features of CIM

• Flexibility in product, volume and material.
• Improved productivity and quality.
• Improved interface between design and manufacturing.
• Reduction in direct and indirect labour in various levels and functional units including middle management, engineering, administrative and operations support.
• High quality design which lead to good products
• High quality documentation and packages.
• Better standardization and better material utilization.
• Time and floor space savings.
• A common database which eliminates huge data storage by independent systems.
• Elimination of tedious, repetitive tasks and independent data storage.
• Reduction in inspection time and work force associated with it.
• Competitive advantage over competitors.