盧文智

Computer Integrated Manufacturing -CIM is an important strategy or method for the enterprise to promote its productivity . The success of CIM is determined by the quality of Information Management . It is important to construct an integrated Information Management System to assert CIM implementation . The objective of this research is to develop and design a CORBA- based CIM Information Management system . To achieve Integration in a heterogeneous network a common object request broker architecture(CORBA)-based architecture was chosen . The system is developed in a distributed environment and can provide business objects to application systems in an enterprise . It behave as middleware between applications and Database or repository ( Three-Tier Software Architecture ). Owe to the function of cross-platform of CORBA , the system can achieve interoperability among applications on distributed , heterogeneous platform . This system can estimate the phenomena of Automation Island and promote the efficiency of CIM system . This research also present a systematic and structural software development procedure of CIM Information Management System , and it can be a referential development procedure for developing a distributed object system .