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- ItemEvaluation of the GRAI integrated methodology and the IMAGIM supportware(SAIIE, 1998) Reid, J. M. C.; Du Preez, N. D.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This paper describes the GRAI Integrated Methodology and identifies the need for computer tools to support enterprise modelling,design and integration. The IMAGIM tool is then evaluated in terms of its ability to support the GRAI Integrated Methodology. The GRAI Integrated Methodology is an Enterprise Integration methodology developed to support the design of CIM systems . The GRAI Integrated Methodology consists of the GRAI model and a structured approach. The latest addition to the methodology is the IMAGIM software tool developed by the GRAI research group for the specific purpose of supporting the methodology.
- ItemIntegrated product and enterprise design for global competitiveness(SAIIE, 1998) Du Preez, N. D.; Reid, J. M. C.This paper presents an overview of the challenge to integrate product and process life cycles in maintaining global competitiveness of an enterprise and proposes IEKOS as a possible solution . It provides the reader with a framework of two virtual life cycles which create a problem solving matrix for the industrial engineer. In this matrix, bordered by the virtual enterprise life cycle and the virtual product life cycles, the business functions of analyze, design deploy and operate are predominantly functions executed by the, industrial engineer. The different phases of each life cycle serves as a framework to a virtual industrial engineering toolkit providing access to detailed functions, formats, examples and a series of software and other "tools" available to the industrial engineer. In conclusion a brief overview is provided of the progress of the IEKOS toolkit which is under development at the department ofIndustrial Engineering at Stellenbosch University.