Emerging Smart Engineering: An Integrated Manufacturing and Management System

1 Introduction The possible applications of complex Computer Integrated Manufacturing and Management (CIMM) systems seem to be a vary important emerging application of the industrial engineering in the future manufacturing. In the case study country (Poland), the problems of manufacturing and management (including factory automation) have been tried to be solved together for a long time. Even the very first original Polish application of computer control systems [1] covered some problems of production control, factory automation and management. The last original case study country projects in the domain of the power industry computer control systems and networks [2,3] were, in fact, the large-scale distributed CIMM systems for big manufacturing plants. Unfortunately, due to the severe down-economy period in the case study country, when the political change occurred there (roughly 1990), the projects were abandoned. After the political change mentioned hereinabove, the case study country became opened widely to possible technology transfer from well developed possible technology providers of the Western countries. But they never tried to resume the above mentioned projects. First of all, they were interested in lay labour only in the " technology transfer beneficiary countries " [4-8] and, in no case, in continuation of local projects. Secondly, there were hardly any references confirming that they had anything at all to offer in the CIMMs domain. Thirdly, in the case study country, they proved to be simple losers: though in the Lower Silesia and, specifically, in Wroclaw, i.e. ex-capital city of the case study country IT, ICT, industrial electronics and automation industries, wherein many people of deep knowledge and wide experience in the domain are still available, or perhaps just due to that, all big Western ICT and automation corporations have failed and have had to move out (in a shame, if this word means anything to big corporations). A group of designers and research workers involved earlier in development of computer automation systems and networks [5], [8,9] (the Team) decided to resume their activities to continue the work began in late nineties and publish their results in spite of popular opinions:-" For example, ISA 95 / IEC 62264 is a must for a reference in this area. "-" It should be better to separate concerns and to have two specialised systems supporting each other. " The two remarks touch the very bases of design and research work for novel large-scale industrial systems. The authors recognise two basic …