Information Integration in Manufacturing Cost Estimation

摘要

This paper reports research regarding integrating information from process planning, scheduling, and cost accounting to generate a cost-estimating system. In the early stages of the computer/information technology, various information was controlled by separated departments and, sometimes, cannot be retrieved in a short time. Nowadays, companies can receive great benefits to integrate these information. Manufacturing cost estimation is one of the activities can receive advantages of the information integrating. A manufacturing activity consists 1) receive customer-order specification, 2) assign manufacturing activities/process plans, 3) schedule assigned manufacturing activity, required inventory, and other related activities/process scheduling. Based on those activities, a cost-estimating framework is presented using integrated information.