Development of An Information System Integration Framework for the Manufacturing Business

Abstract: Information systems play a critical role in today's manufacturing business, and the need for enterprise-wide integrated information system has grown rapidly, as isolated information systems represent inadequate business solutions. Although there are different integration approaches reported in the published literature, in today’s industrial practice, most of the information system integration projects are still done on a trial-and-error basis owing to the lack of practical and feasible integration methodologies. In previous paper, a manufacturing information systems integration framework has been developed. This paper reports the development of the computer application for the integration framework, and a case study has been used to illustrate how to apply the framework in the real-world environment. Key-Words: Implementation; Information technology; Information systems integration; Manufacturing strategy