Part one of term paper
The term manufacturing includes all activities from the perception of a need for a product, through the conception, design and development of the product, production, marketing, and support of the product in use. Every action involved in these activities uses data, whether textual, graphic or numeric. The computer is today's primary tool f ...

Part two of term paper
... before possible. What is Computer-Integrated Manufacturing? Utilizing the computer to integrate the fragmented operations of manufacturing into a single, smoothly operating, manufacturing system with reduced total manufacturing costs and turnaround times, and improved quality is generally termed Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (CIM). Another definition that is more precise might be the utilization of computers to control the integration and flow of information between design, engineering, manu ...