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2016-2017学年第一学期《机械专业英语》论文题目： 计算机集成制造 系 别：机电工程系班 级：机制1303班学 号：2013100318姓 名：刘拴龙指导教师：王嘉伟Computerintegrated manufacturingComputer-integrated manufacturing (CIM) is the term used to describe the most modern approach to manufacturing. Although CIM encompasses many of the other advanced manufacturing technologies, it is more than a new technology or new concept. CIM is actually an entirely new approach to manufacturing a new way of doing way of doing business. The term“computer-integrated manufacturing”was developed in 1974 by Joseph Harrington as the title of a book he wrote tying islands of automation together through the used of computers. It has taken many years for CIM to develop as a concept, but integrated manufacturing is not really new. In fact integration is where manufacturing actually began. Manufacturing has developed through four distinct stages: manual manufacturing, mechanization/specialization, automation and integration. With the advent of the computer age, manufacturing has developed full circle. It began as a totally integrated concept and, with CIM, has once again become one. However, there are major differences in the manufacturing integration of today and that of the manual era of the past. First, the instrument of integration in the manual era was the human mind. The instrument of integration modern manufacturing is the computer. Second, processes in the modern manufacturing setting are still specialized and automated. Another way to view the historical development of CIM is by examining the ways in which some of the individual components of CIM have developed over theyears. Such components as design, planning and production used to accomplish the processes. Design has evolved from a manual process using such tools as slide rules, triangles, pencils, scales, and erasers into an automated process known as computer-aided design (CAD). Process planning has evolved from a manual process known as computer-aided proces