An assessment of GRAI Grids and their use in the Strathclyde Integration Method

Autor:	Allan S. Carrie, Robert MacIntosh
Rok vydání:	1997
Předmět:	Engineering Third party Management science business.industry Strategy and Management Management Science and Operations Research Grid Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Computer Science Applications Component (UML) Systems engineering Information system Critical assessment business
Zdroj:	Production Planning & Control. 8:106-113
ISSN:	1366-5871 0953-7287
Popis:	The purpose of this paper is to present a critical assessment of GRAI Grids as a tool for improved manufacturing integration. GRAI Grids, a key component of the GRAI approach, form an integral part of the Strathclyde Integration Method SIM for manufacturing integration. The contribution of the paper is thus to provide a 'third party' view of the effectiveness of GRAI Grids as a modelling tool. The paper presents a brief overview of the GRAI approach, concentrating particularly on the Grids, and an overview of SIM, showing how GRAI Grids are used. The main section of the paper presents an assessment and critique of GRAI Grids. Several benefits and limitations of the Grid as used in SIM and some suggestions for extensions are presented. The paper concludes that the use of the GRAI Grid, within a methodology, provides a unique insight into the behaviour and design of manufacturing information systems and that those who criticize the technique perhaps do so from a lack of awareness of its concepts, principles...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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