Obstacles to computer integrated manufacturing success: a study of practitioner perceptions

This study investigated practitioner perceptions of obstacles to computer integrated manufacturing success. One hundred and one survey participants rated the importance of obstacles believed to influence CIM success. A comparison of obstacle importance, as measured in this study, with the importance of various obstacles as measured in other studies, suggests that the importance of obstacles may be temporal in nature. The survey responses were used to develop an empirically-based taxonomy of CIM obstacles