The Cim Debacle: Methodologies to Facilitate Software Interoperability

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Summary: Contemporary CIM/ Enterprise Software
Review: Building upon decades of experience in research, design and implementation of leading-edge real-time deterministic Computer Integrated Manufacturing systems at Loughborough University (UK), this book by Singh describes pragmatic approaches to use modelling tools and infrastructural services enhancing enterprise software reuse, and system performance.

Contents include: contemporary software interoperability, state of the art, achieving interoperability, information architecture, integrating infrastructure, system lifecycle support, and case studies.

Strengths include the thorough and deep perspective afforded by experience, scope for extrapolation of findings to current enterprise-wide systems, lack of ERP-vendor bias, and attractive use of charts, tables and references. Despite the depth of the material sometimes making for slower reading, this is a useful contribution to knowledge (for systems integrators and industrial researchers) in the area of industrial business objects, component libraries and enterprise software interoperability.