Immune Systems In CIM
Introduction
As declared by Leo Roth Klein, CIM is not applying computers to the implementation of the products of the company. Such is computers-aided design or CAD! This is not utilizing them as tools for assembly and part analysis. Such is computer-aided engineering or CAE! This is not utilizing computers to aid in the improvement of part programs to drive machine tools. Such is computer aided manufacturing or CAM! This is not materials requirement planning or MRP or just-in-time or JIT or any type of other method for enhancing the production schedule. This is not automated detection, data acquisition or data collection. This is not modeling or simulation of any type of materials handling or robots or anything else as that. Consider by them that they are the application of computer technology to the procedure of manufacturing. However taken by them they only create the island of automations.
As the term computer integrated manufacturing comprises three words name are: computer', 'integrated' and 'manufacturing', all of these words contribute technically in its realization. Conversely, first two words are subsidiary that serve as a qualifier for the word 'manufacturing'. Thus, it is readily apparent that computer integrated manufacturing is the application of computers in manufacturing in an integrated method. Each type of computer from personal to mainframes may be utilized in computer integrated manufacturing. The second term 'integrated' stands for the integration of each resource that is crucial to the success of manufacturing. These resources mainly comprise capital, technology and human, equipments. Mostly, computer integrated manufacturing discards any arbitrary application of computers and concern technologies such yields scattered outputs in terms of automation. Integration can be realized through timely and efficient communication on which computer integrated manufacturing relies heavily. Since the computer lies in the core of computer integrated manufacturing, physically and literally, communication as submitted to computer integrated manufacturing is strongly computer oriented.
Though computers communications and computer have begun to be employed since mid of twentieth century, computer integrated manufacturing has emerged pretty recently. This drew attention mainly in 1980s for expensive nature of computer in previous days and sheer complexity of integration owing to huge number of interacting tasks in discrete manufacturing.
Computer integrated manufacturing amalgamates the management and its production and appears to be an umbrella term such not merely covers manufacturing houses however all the concerned acronyms as like: computer aided manufacturing or CAM, computer- aided design or CAD, flexible manufacturing systems or FMS and computer aided process planning or say CAPP. The scope of computer integrated manufacturing, hence, ranges from interactively challenging discrete manufacturing to automation seeking procedure industries. Different functions of computer integrated manufacturing as like: imbuing artificial intelligence, coordination and integration of various manufacturing operations, solving computer integrated manufacturing planning problems are aided by state of the art tools as like fuzzy logic, immune systems, artificial neural network, etc.
Immune system or IS an extremely intricate biological system that accounts for resistance of a living body against harmful entities. Artificial immune system or AIS imitates the immunological concepts to develop several techniques utilized in various areas of research. This works on the principle of pattern recognition or differentiating antibody and antigen and clonal selection principle, whereby clonal selection algorithm or CLONALG is designed to memory acquisition tasks and accomplish learning. The receptors shows on the antibodies are causes for antibody-antigen interaction. In these interactions, various antibodies have various affinities towards an antigen and the binding strength is directly proportional to such affinity. These concepts are greatly promising such can be emulated for learning, memory and associative retrieval to help computer integrated manufacturing in several ways. In a nutshell, artificial immune systems or IS can be harnessed in communication,