An Overview of Manufacturing IT From Perspective of Enterprise and Manufacturing Systems

The paper presents a birds eye view about the involvement of Information Technology in manufacturing operations from a business, managerial, strategic and decision making point of view. The article discusses various present and future industry trends, challenges and concerns from a global and Indian perspective of industries of various domains and sizes across geographies which involve manufacturing processes of various scales. IT has become an indispensable part of almost every business process of manufacturing and a single change in any process can have major impact on overall production cycle. A basic 3 level Model has been followed which involves Manufacturing systems at 2^nd level and enterprise systems at 3^rd level.