Computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) / Aderi Mamat and Latifah Saad

Manufacturing can be defined as the process of transforming raw materials into a product. It is not enough, therefore, to process some raw meterials and obtain the desired product. It is, in fact, of major importance to achieve that goal through employing the easiest, fastest and most efficient methods. So, the manufacturing industry is aiming to create product that can sell at a large margin of profit. To achieve this aim, the best product must be designed and manufactured in the shortest possible time and at a lower cost. One of the key to improve the productivity of manufacturing and maintaining competitive cost, is to use advance manufacturing technologies. Some of these technologies can be used in variety of different applications. Most of the advance technologies used today and those being developed for the future used computer technologies. Computer Integrated Manufacturing is one of the technology used by manufacturing industries today used by manufacturing today.