CIM In Action -- Awaiting the Big Payoff

Staring at the Bullseye

Murphy is of the belief that the true payoff will come when the entire production process is fully integrated. He urges companies to pay less attention to the acronym soup and keep their eyes on the main prize.

"JDF and CIP3 are OK. I'm not so enamored with the terms," he says. "Just throwing out the term 'JDF compliant' doesn't mean anything to me. Of much more importance is the fact that we're looking to integrate all of our processes. Here at Japs-Olson, we ended up writing pretty much our own system for that. We didn't write any JDF spec into it because we don't need to.