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FIRM: Factory Information Resource Management

The project is innovating new techniques for integrated information management in the manufacturing environment, in particular to ease maintenance and fault-diagnosis problems. This involves the creation of a large factory-wide database of multimedia information, potentially available to other site in an organisation through the use of appropriate communication technology. The initial research was funded by the EPSRC in collaboration with Pirelli Cables. The current contract is also funded by Eurotherm Drives. Additional research is being undertaken with Ford's engine plant at Bridgend in associationwith School of Manufacturing Science at Cranfield.

Type: Normal Research Project
Research Groups: Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group, Learning Societies Lab, Electronic and Software Systems, Agents, Interaction and Complexity
Themes: Web Science, Knowledge Technologies
Dates: 1st January 1997 to 31st December 1999

Funding

• EPSRC

Principal Investigators

• Professor Dame Wendy Hall
• Dr Richard M Crowder

Other Investigators

• Dr Gary B Wills