Low cost automation and local CIMS the automation development direction for medial and small enterprise

摘要

In order to stay competitive in the world market, reforming manufacturing industry is essential. Indeed, it's very important to adopt overall CIMS, Low Cost Automation (LCA) and Local CIMS (LCIMS) automation technology for reforming manufacturing industry and related industries as well. Overall CIMS model is only suitable for automation development in larger enterprises. LCIMS and LCA models are suitable for automation development at medial and small enterprises. A survey of overall CIMS, LCA and LCIMS and a case study of LCIMS for the garment industry are presented in this paper.