PRODUCTIVITY & QUALITY IMPROVEMENTS BY USING COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING (CIM) IN DIE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY

In competitive environment of quick market changes, developing an interoperable manufacturing system is a necessity. To realize interoperability, the exchange of part and product data must be independent of their platforms. Conventional manufacturing process in die manufacturing industry has limitation on productivity, quality and integration of various activities. This paper focuses on CAD-CAM-CAPP integration concurrent engineering and standardization implementation to ensure the high productivity and quality in a small-scale die manufacturing industry. Any Die manufacturing unit is designed to benefit from integration of various activities. It is necessary to build system that integrates all the departments of production system by computerized information system, which focuses on exchange of part, product and process data. CIM co-ordinates all relevant activities associated with both the product and its manufacturing automatically. In general, CIM offers to integrate separate applications, such as computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aidedprocess-planning (CAPP), computer-aided manufacturing (CAM)