Faculty of Foundry Engineering
Virtotechnology
Department of Applied Computer Science
IT systems for foundries production
management
Adam Stawowy, Jerzy Duda
www.pi.zarz.agh.edu.pl
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Information Technology (IT) in enterprises
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Management Information Systems
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System analysis and design
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Operations Research (OR) models and applications
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Spreadsheet modeling and programming for operation
management
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Simulation of operational systems
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Data warehousing and business intelligence
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Principles of business data mining
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Information Technology (IT) in enterprises
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New versus old Economy
Business pressures and organizational
responses
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E-business
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The examples
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Short history of IT
 Next 3 slides – source: Turban E., Leidner D., McLean E.,
Wetherbe J.: Information Technology for Management,
Wiley, 2006.
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Drivers forcing changes in business models
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Business Pressures
Environmental, organizational, and technological factors are
creating a highly competitive business environment; these
factors or forces can change quickly, sometimes in an
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Business Critical Response Activities
companies need to react frequently and quickly to both the
threats and the opportunities resulting from this new business
environment. A response can be a reaction to a pressure already
in existence, an initiative intended to defend an organization
against future pressures, or an activity that exploits an
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unpredictable manner.
opportunity created by changing conditions.
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The drivers
of change
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Technology is
required to
effectively
implement
these critical
responses
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Organizational response
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Changes and responses
The four main factors that have changed the
conditions of doing business:
1. Globalization
2. Transformation of industrial economics
3. Business processes restructuring
4. The emergence of e-business
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Changes and responses
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Global competition
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Global manufacturing systems
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Global supply systems
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Globalization
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Changes and responses
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An economy based on information and knowledge
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The rapid increase in productivity
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New products and services
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Time - the main element of competition
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Shortening products life cycle
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Highly variable and risky environment
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Transformation of industrial economics
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Changes and responses
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The flattening of the management structure
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Decentralization
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Flexibility
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Teleworking
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The complex coordination
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Teamwork
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Changes and responses
E-business
Electronic relationships between customers, suppliers
and employees.
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Key business processes conducted through a network.
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Electronic management of corporate resources.
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Quick response to external changes and challenges.
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E-business - classification
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E-market: IT systems connect buyers and sellers to
exchange information, products, services and payments,
Business-to-customer (B2C): direct sales of products /
services to individual customers,
Business-to-business (B2B): sale among companies,
Consumer-to-consumer (C2C): use the Internet to sell or
exchange of goods between individuals.
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E-business – B2B and B2C
Model of e-business firm
Factories
-JiT manufacturing
- inventory control
- production planning
Clients
- on-line marketing
- on-line sales
- custom products
Remote offices
- exchange of plans
- groupware
- e-communication
Suppliers
supply chain management
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E-commerce
Business partners
- collaborative design
- outsourcing
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Information technology
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IT is the application of computers and telecommunications equipment to collect, process, store, analyze, and
disseminate information for a specific purpose.
Data – representation of information; input data are
transformed by using information technology into output
data.
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Computer sciences are dealing with data processing.
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Short history of IT
Decade Innovation
Technology
1950-
Electronic brain
Programming languages
1960-
Computer for commercial purposes
1970-
Databases (DB) in business
Operating systems
terminals, computer networks
1980-
The world of PCs
Personal computers, graphical user
interface (GUI), local area networks (LAN)
1990-
Client-server architecture
Distributed processing, wide
area networks (WAN)
2000-
Web 1.0 i 2.0
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DB management systems,
E-business, social networking
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