2. Say whether the following statements are true or false. Justify your choice. Use the given phrases:

It’s right. Quite so.

I quite (fully) agree to it.

Certainly. Exactly.

I doubt that …

I don’t think so.

This is not the case.

It’s wrong, I am afraid.

Quite the reverse.

The definition is inappropriate.

1. Engineering automation does not include the hardware and software technologies.

2. Manufacturing automation is all of the automation that supports the production of finished goods from raw materials.

3. Systems integration is the technology and activity that support only the hardware technology.

4. Organizational systems integration is much more tangible and yet just as important.

5. With the advent of CAD/CAM systems there will be no conflicts between the engineering and manufacturing organizations.

3. Answer the following questions:

1. What is factory automation composed of?

2. What does engineering automation include?

3. Why is engineering automation a very critical and important part of the overall industrial process?

4. What is manufacturing automation concerned with?

5. What technology supports the integration of the engineering automation products into synergistic systems?

6. What do you mean under the term “computer-integrated manufacturing”?

7. Why is electronic systems integration necessary to exploit the opportunity available from using electronic data base?

8. What form will more of the engineering data be in?

9. Was the factory of the past integrated via paper or electronic data?

10. Will physical systems integration be a growing necessity as the factory becomes more flexible and programmable?

11. What case does a factory which is oriented towards batch manufacturing become more controllable in real time?

12. What has the implementation of a physically integrated system to depend on?

13. Is organizational systems integration as just important as electronic systems integration and physical systems integration?

14. What causes the potential conflict between the engineering and manufacturing organizations?

15. What benefit will the integration of CIM provide?

4. Give the terms to the following definitions:

1. The area that includes all the hardware and software technologies that support the automation of the engineering activities.

2. Design of the products and processes with the help of computers.

3. The automation that supports the production of finished goods from raw materials.

4. The technology and activity that support the integration of the engineering automation products into synergistic system.

5. The type of integration that is based on the use of electronic data bases.

Conversational Practice

1. Clarify what we mean by the following statements:

1. Nowadays manufacturing automation tends to more flexibility and more programmability.

2. In the synergistic systems the whole is more productive than the sum of the parts.

3. A batch factory will become more like a continuous process factory.