Tik-86.140 Computer Integrated Enterprise

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Whatever Happened to "Tik-86.140 Integration of CIM Systems"?

If you are trying to find information on the course Tik-86.140 Integration of CIM Systems relax; this is it. The official name of the course still remains Integration of CIM Systems, and if you pass the course, that name will appear in your study records. For all official purposes, this course is equivalent with the older course with the same code.

The new name is chosen to indicate the direction of evolution of the course: towards concepts, issues, methods, and techniques with are relevant for wide-scale application of information technology in an industrial enterprise over and beyond purely manufacturing applications. By the way, I'm still contemplating on the alternative name Enterprise Systems Integration.

The Objective of the Course

The objective of the course is to give an overall view of the use of information technology in industrial enterprises, with emphasis on the use of computing in various product processes (new product development, customer order satisfaction) and their main support processes (marketing, material processes, etc.). The course covers topics which are deemed relevant for this purpose, including

product and process modelling
product data management
architectures of industrial information systems
integration technologies
future directions

The course is intended as a prerequisite for more specialised Tik-86 courses, in particular the seminars .160/.161, but also for more general audience interested in industrial applications of information technology.

Prerequisites

Necessary prerequisites include core courses of the Computer Science curriculum, in particular Tik-76.122, Tik-76.137 and (preferably) Tik-76.143. Basic understanding on industrial operations management such as given by TU-22.105 or equivalent is also recommended.

Teachers

The course is led by Prof. Martti Mäntylä (Y228D, office hours Mon 13.15-14.00, e-mail Martti.Mantyla@hut.fi). The main teaching assistant is DI Sami Surakka (U259, office hours Wed 13:00-14:00, e-mail Sami.Surakka@hut.fi).

Course Schedule

The course meets 2 times per week, Mondays and Thursdays at 10-12 in lecture hall F. The course commences on Thursday, September the 11th. As before, the course is given in English.

The lectures on the course consist of a core sequence given by Prof. Mäntylä. In the schedule, these include those lectures where no other speaker is specified. The core lectures are complemented by invited lectures concentrating on specific issues, concepts, methods, or tools relevant for enterprise systems integration and given by chosen experts in the respective fields.

Apart from lectures, seminar sessions will be scheduled. These consist of short presentations given by the participants of the course and provide an opportunity to discuss the subject matter of the course in a more interactive fashion. Seminar material consists of recent published papers and articles or material available through WWW.

The provisional schedule of lectures and seminar sessions can be found here.

The first exam based on this version of the course will be given on 17.12.1997.

Course Material

Course material will be distributed through Otapaino, and all participants are urged to order it. The library in room U259 is available for further material and studies. Other information can be found on the bulletin board outside room U259, through the WWW links collection for the course, and in the newsgroup opinnot.tik.cim in otax.

Seminar material consists of selected recent literature that will be available from the course assistant. Alternatively, students are requested to search relevant material from the WWW on a given theme or topic. The WWW links provided here give several starting points.

Passing the Course

The written exam can give a maximum grade of 4. Various other activities give extra activity points. These include:

one-page summary (preferably, a WWW page in English language) of assigned seminar material + answers to questions + 5 min. presentation => 1-2 activity points
opponency of a seminar preparation => 1 activity point
70 % attendance at the lectures and active participation in discussions => 1 activity point
written notes from three or more guest lectures: comments, questions, opinions... => 1 activity point
written report (preferably, a WWW page in English language) on a practical assignment on a given topic related to CIE tools or techniques + 5-minute presentation => 2 activity points
written excursion report => 1 activity point

A minimum of two activity points are needed to pass the course, four activity points will increase a passed exam grade by one (i.e. 1 -> 2, 2 -> 3, 3 -> 4, 4 -> 5). Please observe that only a limited number of practical assignment topics will be available.

For article summaries and practical assignment reports, Web pages in English are strongly recommended so that they can be made available to other students through a report link page. Those reports not intended for distribution (lecture notes, excursion reports) can be written in any language sufficiently understood the teachers (Finnish, Swedish, English, German).

Links

A collection of links related to topics of the course and intended as material for seminars and practical assignments is given here.

For information on last year's course, see this.