SEMATECH DOC ID #: 93061697J-ENG

Title: Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) Framework Specification Version 2.0

Author(s): Factory Integration Division;

Document date: 01/30/1998

Descriptor(s): CIM;frameworks;interoperability standards;manufacturing execution systems;object oriented systems;specifications;software reuse;

Abstract:  This document is version 2.0 of the Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM)
Framework Specification, containing updates and corrections to version 1.5.
The purpose of the CIM Framework is to assist in the creation of an
integrated, common, flexible, modular object model leading to an open, multi-
supplier CIM system environment. It is designed to provide benefits that
include increased productivity, reduction in new development cost and cycle
time, shorter factory start-up and ramp-up times, a wider base of
applications suppliers, and reduction in system mean time to repair (MTTR).
The document is designed for technical managers and staff, application
developers, and CIM Framework component suppliers.