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Ever since Harrington first proposed the concetp of Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) in 1973 , it has been received a paramount interests in both academic researches and industrial applications . It is predicted that manufacturers who do not implement CIM in the 2010s will not be able to survive. In the last two decades , many real world cases of the successful implementations of CIM as well as the failure ones have been reported . According to previous studies , very seldom can a successful instance be re- implanted in other similar manufacturers . The major problem resides in their distinct enterprise features . In order to implement CIM successfully in an enterprise , not only technical issues but also non-technical ones ( people , management practice , organization structure and corporate culture ) need to be carefully considered . In this research , the findings of a survey of 19 Taiwanese respondent users who claim to implement CIM are reported . The respondents' experiences confirm that Norman F. Barber's enterprise model is quite useful to Taiwanese CIM users. Through this study , a number of suggestions for the current and future CIM users are presented .
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