Marshall Wood, 94, a pioneer in the use of computers for large- scale defense and economic planning, died Jan. 20 of cardiac and respiratory failure at Blue Hill Memorial Hospital in Blue Hill, Maine.
A flexible manufacturing system (FMS) is an integrated, computer-controlled complex of automated material handling devices and numerically controlled machine tools that can simultaneously process ...
Material requirements planning (MRP) is a computer-based inventory management system designed to assist production managers in scheduling and placing orders for items of dependent demand. Dependent ...