Organizational Information Systems (Brief Case report)

Introduction

My-Briefcase Limited (MBL) is a small manufacturer with 200 employees. It has been growing consistently due to the quality of its products, innovation and good customer service it has expanded continuously. It is based in an old mill in the centre of Bradford. It now manufactures a complete range of business briefcases. Today, MBL employs has a number of central departments, namely: Accounting, Marketing, HRM, Engineering and Design, Sales, Purchasing and warehousing, Manufacturing, Logistics and Despatch. It buys products from a variety of suppliers, such as producers of plastics, locks, etc. MBL has contacts with a number of local, national and international retailers and whole sellers. Each of its department plays an essential role in selling its brief cases onto customer. For example, the purchase department orders raw materials, which get stored in the warehouse. The warehouse then forwards them onto the manufacturing department. More recently, MBL's Managing Director realised the need to use IS to enhance and yield greater efficiency and effectiveness, given the international competition. So he has decided to create a small IS department. An initial priority of MBL is to acquire a new stock control system and an up-to-date integrated Computer-Aided Design/Computer-Aided Manufacturing CAD/CAM) system (software and hardware). Different departments handle different types of information, yet the use of “IS” is very small. For example, the Accounts department is involved in handling purchase orders and paying for goods, whereas the marketing department collects information about the popularity of products and then advises the Engineering and Design Department to design particular types of brief cases. It also markets and advertises the products.

Discussion

CAD and Cam are the acronyms of (Computer Aided Design and Computer Aided Manufacturing) respectively. These systems are used for both designing and manufacturing products. CAD is basically designed for the help regarding the designs of products that needs to be manufactured. Actually it is specifically designed to control the processes of manufacturing through documentation. This task is done by geometrically designed drawings and their proposed ideas that can be implemented accordingly. Then the CAM portion will handle the proposed diagram to control the machine that will manufacture the exact shape we provided to it through CAD. These two software CAD and CAM are especially dedicated software, that are used for machine tooling, product development and manufacturing.

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After the introduction of AutoCAD and Autodesk software in 1982, Autodesk was the leader as far as CAD designed software development is concerned. (ADN) or “Autodesk Developer Network” gives a large range of CAM tools that coordinates with Autodesk inventor software. Autodesk Developer Network or ADN gives a wide range of manufacturing partnered products with over 1000 partners for just AutoCAD. Actually ADN has allied with all the leading players, to offer their customers a wide of access to the specific tools they need. AutoCAD is totally compatible with other manufacturing products such as: Inventor CAM or Edge CAM, Master CAM and Gibbs CAM.

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