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The Product Life Cycle. A new product progresses through a sequence of stages
from introduction to growth, maturity, and decline. This sequence is known as the
product life cycle and is associated with changes in the marketing situation, thus
impacting the marketing strategy and the marketing mix.
Sequence of functions performed
in a manufacturing firm
1. Design assemblies and perform tolerance analysis on those assemblies.
2. Prepare engineering drawings of assemblies, individual parts, tooling,
fixtures and manufacturing facilities.
3. Create analytical models of parts for structural and thermal analysis.
4. Calculate weights, volume, center of gravity and thermal analysis.
5. Classify existing parts according to shape, function and the process by
which they are manufactured and retrieve these parts from the data
library on demand.
6. Prepare process parts lists.
7. Prepare process plants for individual part manufacture and assembly.
Sequence of functions performed in a CONT
manufacturing firm
Business organization :
Business is an organization in which basic resources, called inputs, are
assembled and processed to provide goods or services, called outputs, to
customers.
Database Management System
(DBMS)
Collection of interrelated data
Set of programs to access the data
DBMS contains information about a particular enterprise
DBMS provides an environment that is both convenient and
efficient to use.
Database Applications:
Banking: all transactions
Airlines: reservations, schedules
Universities: registration, grades
Sales: customers, products, purchases
Manufacturing: production, inventory, orders, supply chain
Human resources: employee records, salaries, tax deductions
1.Hierarchical
2.Network
3.Relational
Hierarchical database
Ahierarchical database
modelis adata modelin which
the data is organized into
atree-like structure. The data
is stored asrecordswhich are
connected to one another
throughlinks. A record is a
collection of fields, with each
field containing only one
value. Theentity typeof a
record defines which fields the
record contains.
Network model
Thenetwork modelis
adatabase modelconceived
as a flexible way of
representing objects and
their relationships.
2. Performance transparency
3. Copy transparency
4. Transaction transparency
5. Fragment transparency
Business Engineering/Manufacturing
Record type Few Many
Relationships Simple Complex
Queries Simple Complex
Analysis Rare Normal
Update Short Long
Record Few Many
Implementation of CIM
CIM is an integration process leading to
the integration of the manufacturing
enterprise
Make CIM a long term strategic project with strategic goal of the
firm.