INTEGRATED PRODUCT PROCESS AND MANUFACTURING SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT REFERENCE MODEL FRAMEWORK
1.0 Introduction 1.1 Background of the study Manufacturing system is a group of physical objects arranged to transform raw material into finished product. [Black, 1991] These physical objects include machines, tools, material handling equipment and people. Along with the raw material, a manufacturing system also requires information (customer orders, current system status), capital (money, equipment, […]