The MITC’s purpose is to develop fundamental theory and best practices to answer the following questions:
- How can manufacturing organizations use information technology (computers, networks, information systems, data, algorithms, and decision support) to make their processes more effective?
- How can manufacturing techniques be employed to create software factories through component based software development?
To answer these questions, the MITC brings together core competencies in the areas of component based development, enterprise integration, domain engineering, large scale project management, information systems design, intelligent systems, internet, intranet and e-business, data mining, data warehousing, and manufacturing systems.
To provide the cross-disciplinary expertise, resources and personnel needed to design, develop, and deploy intelligent, integrated computer-aided manufacturing systems, the MITC brings together the University’s academic areas of computer science, computer engineering, industrial engineering, management information systems, management science, and applied statistics, plus the Alabama Technology Network (ATN), the Alabama Productivity Center (APC), the Enterprise Integration Lab (EIL), the Integrated Component Assembly Lab (ICAL), the Internet 2 (I2) project, and the Information Technology Workforce Resource Centers (IT-WoRCs).
Thus MITC develops and disseminates information technologies necessary for manufacturing enterprises to compete in the global market. Techniques such as enterprise modeling, enterprise resource planning, manufacturing flow control, factory physics, C3I, fuzzy logic, neural networks, genetic algorithms, component-based development, statistics and adaptive control algorithms are employed to maximize the impact of computer-aided intelligent manufacturing.
This Center’s enterprise integration infrastructure provides leverage for manufacturing organizations to improve planning and deployment techniques across operational, tactical, and strategic levels-thus improving manufacturing effectiveness, efficiency, and competitiveness.
For more information contact:
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Dr. David P. Hale, Director
The University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0226
dhale@cba.ua.edu
205.348.6085
205.348.0560 (fax)