ORGANIZATION OF AN INTEGRATED INFORMATION BASE THANKS TO HYPERMEDIA SYSTEMS

The Computer Integrated Manufacturing approach involves a unified information system and methodologies to describe the different processes and the way they communicate. Our work first deals with the information system [BIEN 92a] and is extended to take into account distributed processes. Based on an hypermedia system, organizational views on the information base and ''actors' descriptions'' are managed to integrate organizational and consistency controls. Built in a modular way, our system integrates both the knowledge about a product (documents, technical data...) and the manufacturing information used for an efficient production management. ''Intelligent controllers'' are built at all the levels to compute dynamically adapted views on the system and control the information consistency. Such an organization can be used by the design or the sales departments as well as by workshops [BIEN 93].