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E-R Approach to Distributed Heterogeneous Database Systems for Integrated Manufacturing

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  • Hemant Jain

    (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA)

  • Mohammed I. Bu-Hulaiga

    (King Fahad University of Petroleum & Mineral, Saudi Arabia)

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A critical step towards computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) is the integration of computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM). Well developed CAD, CAM, and Business data processing systems generally exist in an organization. These systems represent years of work and a very large investment for the organization. Thus a necessary condition for integration is defining schemes through which existing engineering and non-engineering data can be represented and manipulated in an integrated way. In this paper a Common Data Model (CDM) approach to distributed heterogeneous database is adopted for CAD/CAM integration and an Extended-Entity-Category-Relationship (EECS) Model (an extension of ER model) is proposed. The use of EECR model as a common conceptual data model for representing engineering and non-engineering data is discussed.

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  • Hemant Jain & Mohammed I. Bu-Hulaiga, 1990. "E-R Approach to Distributed Heterogeneous Database Systems for Integrated Manufacturing," Information Resources Management Journal (IRMJ), IGI Global, vol. 3(1), pages 29-41, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:rmj000:v:3:y:1990:i:1:p:29-41
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