Computer Aided Manufacturing

Implementing industrial multi-agent systems using JACK

by James Brusey

Productivity Improvement by Using Social-Annotations about Design Intent in CAD Modelling Process

by Jorge Martin-Gutierrez

Using IDEF and QFD to develop an organizational decision support methodology for the strategic justification of computer-integrated technologies

by Joseph Sarkis

Sarkis, J., and Liles, D.H., lnternational Journal of Project Management Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 177-185, 1995

The paper presents some issues relevant to the strategic justification of computer-integrated enterprise technologies... more The paper presents some issues relevant to the strategic justification of computer-integrated enterprise technologies for small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises. To address the issue of making a strategic justification or 'business case' for these technologies, an organizational decision-making methodology that incorporates the strategies of the firm is needed, among other requirements. A research and development approach that integrates Quality Function Deployment and IDEF0 functional modeling to determine the requirements and processes for the justification methodology is presented. This approach has implications for future research and development for similar organizational decision-support processes and business-process reengineering.