RETRAINING MANAGEMENT-INFORMATION-SYSTEMS FOR ITS ROLE IN COMPUTER-INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING

There is ample evidence to show that MIS departments are lagging behin d other departments in their contribution to CIM development. MIS Prof essionals tend to feel more comfortable with Big Blue and its ability to handle accounting, finance and planning data than they are at manag ing robots and programmable controllers. Most MIS graduates have not h ad a course in Fortran, nor are they familiar with UNIX V, both import ant to product and process engineers, whose expertise is usually respo nsible for CIM development.