Eduardo Olivia-Lopez -- Transcental Engineering

ISSS Meeting at Asilomar, June 28-July 2, 1999
  • Special Integration Group on Business and Industry, July 1, 1999, 1:30 p.m. 
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Study of computer integrated manufacturing. None of the companies studied had actually become totally integrated.

One conclusion: 

  • all of the elements of the computerized systems were bought for reasons other than the purpose of the whole enterprise 
  • so, islands of computerization 
  • none of the systems met the expectations as proposed by the sellers 
Systemic view of engineering concepts: 
  • Society gets stuff from engineering; some of technology used by engineering comes from society 
  • engineering composed of design, invention and manufacturing 
Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) is at the center of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Computer Aided/Automated (?) Manufacturing (CAM).

Paper is called transcendental manufacturing as we want to transform engineering. 

  • want to transcend space and time 
Q. There's something called Concurrent Engineering, which means that all key components, including the customer, are at the start of the process, with ongoing forensic auditing. It includes externalities, including salvage operations after things will be removed. How is that different from transcendental manufacturing?

A. transcending time and space.

Enrique: have a philosophical problem, since that suggests transcental accounting, auditing, ....   Seems inconsistent with systemic approach of becoming more integrated with others -- transcendental tends to try to push borders further back. 
 
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