Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) can bring many benefits. It allows orders, invoices and other commercial information to be relayed directly between different firms′ computer networks. Distribution contractors must, like the suppliers, become integrated into these EDI etworks.

Under‐resourcing is a common situation in both major plant projects and computer control systems. In the latter case this may have particularly serious and long term effects. Adequate resourcing throughout the life of a computer system is vital.

Copystatic Ltd entered the photocopying sales and maintenance market‐place in tire early 1970s, going through a boom and then a price war. In order to stay in business, the company took the decision to offer customers added value in the form of quality field service, or “uptime”. It...

The requirements for two smaller companies in integrated manufacturing are addressed, in particular, the area of manufacturing control. The functional areas pertaining to manufacturing control in both companies are reviewed. On the basis of these reviews and management objectives, their...

Three changes in the rules used to control a manufacturing unit, which were suggested by simple control engineering concepts, have been examined. A model of an actual make‐for‐stock shop, driven by real order time‐series, was used to examine the impact of the rule changes on a production...

The purpose of this document is to introduce and describe the Livermore Computing Production Control System, commonly called the PCS. Resource management is very difficult in typical UNIX and related systems. The weakness involves the allocation, control and delivery of the usage of computer...

Purpose – This paper aims to present a novel embedded‐internet robot system based on an internet robot agent and the brain‐computer interface (BCI) scheme. Design/methodology/approach – A highly flexible and well‐integrated embedded ethernet robot (eRobot) was designed with enhanced...