A frame based architecture for information integration in CIMS

This paper formulates an architecture for information integration in computer integrated manufacturing systems (CIMS). The architecture takes the frame structure as single link among applications and between applications and physical storage. All the advantages in form features based integrated systems can be found in the frame-based architecture as the frame structure here takes form features as its primitives. But other advantages, e.g., default knowledge and dynamic domain knowledge can be attached to frames and the frame structure is easy to be changed and extended, which cannot be found in form features based systems, can also be showed in frame based architecture as the frame structure is a typical knowledge representation scheme in artificial intelligence and many researches and interests have put on it.