Briefly describe the term manufacturing. What are manufacturing resources?

Explain how financial evolution of manufacturing and technical evolution of computers and communication systems affect the need for information. Has cheap communication enabled the use of information, or the need for information in manufacturing evolved the computer and communications systems?

Specify, in your own words, the potential benefits of manufacturing information and data systems (MIDS).

Explain and contrast the terms information technology (IT) and information systems (IS).

Specify and explain major control activities at factory level. Map the IT components for each activity.

With a help of the CIM pyramid, explain the concept of CIM. What is vertical and what is horizontal integration within CIM?

Describe the term information in both a mathematical and physical sense. Which one would suit better in defining manufacturing information? Why?

Describe and contrast the terms human information and physical information. How does communication affect both of these types of information?

What is the difference between structural and kinetic information?

What is infometrics? Specify the units used to measure information.

What are the uses of information? Specify the concomitant value of information.

Using the information intensity matrix, place the following products: a car, a bank account, a theatre performance, a TV broadcast. Briefly explain the reason for your choice.

Briefly describe five critical characteristics of manufacturing information.

What is a database?

Briefly describe the terms physical entity, attribute and attribute domain.

A computer file system can be used...