Production and Operations Management 1992
INTEGRATION IN MANUFACTURING: AN INFORMATION THEORETIC PERSPECTIVE
Abstract
Integration is a buzzword in manufacturing strategies for global competitiveness. However, some fundamental questions have yet to be answered scientifically; namely, what is integration, why integrate, and what should be integrated? How do existing integration models approach the problems of integration and to what extent are they successful? A theory‐based model of information requirements for integrated manufacturing is needed to answer these questions properly. Such a model can unify hitherto narrowly defined and domainoriented approaches. We suggest a paradigm of parallel formulation and use it to formulate the information requirements for integration, including data and knowledge classes, decision spaces, and logical interactions.
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1937-5956.1992.tb00360.x
- Sources
- openalex