The twenty-first century business environment can be characterized by expanding global competition and products of increasing variety and lower demand. Computer Integrating Manufacturing (CIM) is considered as a key competitive strategy for manufacturing enterprises to achieve this. Infact, the importance of the subject, CIM, has made me to write a book on it. 

This textbook is written in tune with the latest syllabus of Anna University and I have taken the syllabus as a guide for the organisation of this book. Every attempt has been made to highlight and unfold the scope and purpose of the new syllabus.

This text is written in a simple and easy-to-follow language, so that even an average student can grasp the subject by self-study. Every effort has been made to support the text with clear lahallel hetrations. As far as possible I have striven to make every chapter complete by itself.

At the end of each chapter, review and summary key terms you should remember, and review questions are given for the students to consolidate their learning I sincerely hope that the approach used in this hook will embrace the requirements of all the students and will earn appreciation of all the fellow teachers

The author’s responsibility here is to stress abundantly that he lays no claim to the original research in preparing this book. Many of the subject matters that are available in the works of eminent authors have been made freely. Perhaps what I may claim, in all modernity, is that I have tried to fashion the vast amount of materials available from primary and secondary sources into a coherent body of description and analysis.

In this new edition several sections of the second edition of the text have been revised and reorganized in tune with the 2013-Regulation Syllabus of Anna University, many mathematical approaches such as manufacturing models and metrics. Quantitative analysis in cellular manufacturing and quantitative analysis in PMS have been incorporated newly; and amit (Unit ) on “Inchestrial Robotics” has been added newly.

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