Information technology and operation management
- 2. E- SCM • The flow of material, information, money, and services from raw material suppliers through factories and warehouse, to end customer. • The collaborative use of technology to improve the operations of supply chain activities as well as the management of supply chains.
- 4. COUPLING / CONNECTIVITY • Coupling / Connectivity In IT, scalability is the ability to shift to a different level of useful capacity quickly and cost-effectively
- 7. CAD AND CAM
- 9. ROBOTIC • Any automatically operated machine that replaces human effort, though it may not resemble human beings in appearance or perform functions in a humanlike manner. • Robot will become efficient if it can think for thinking robotics uses AI technology For manufacturing robots . • The aim of robotics is to design an efficient robot .
- 11. BARCODES • A barcode is an optical machine-readable representation of data, which shows certain data on certain products. • Barcodes are available as linear or 1D (1 dimensional). • They also come in patterns of squares, dots, hexagons and other geometric patterns within images termed 2D (2 dimensional) matrix codes .
- 12. Specialized equipment and supplies represent significant investments for manufacturing and materials handling businesses. These assets are also often spread across multiple locations. Barcoding offers the ability to track these assets, which can save much time and money. • Inventories of in-house materials and equipment • Processing incoming and outgoing shipments • Tracking equipment that is dispatched to different work sites
- 13. ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING -ERP • The practice of consolidating an enterprise’s planning, manufacturing, sales and marketing efforts into one management system. • Combines all databases across departments into a single database that can be accessed by all employees. • ERP automates the tasks involved in performing a business process.