MIS-user interface design for job shop manufacturing environment

This paper describes a framework in developing MIS-lasar interfaces to high light how generic management information systems can be made more useful to managerial decision making. The suggested framework has bent implemented i n a medium-sized job shop manufacturing company. Object-oriented programmin g technology is to provide flexible access to information stored by a gener ic MIS, namely ManuSoft. To improve the usefulness of the MIS, 20 interfaci ng programs relating to the information requirements at operational, planni ng and strategic levels have been developed and implemented. For purposes o f illustration, three such programs have been described in this paper.