A Frame Based Architecture for Information Integration in CIMS

This paper formulates an architecture for information integration in computer integrated manufacturing systems (CIMS). The architecture takes the frame structure as single link among applica- tions and between applications and physical storage. All the advantages in form features based inte- grated systems can be found in the frame-based architecture as the frame structure here takes form fea- tures as its primitives. But other advantages, e.g., default knowledge and dynamic domain knowledge can be attached…