CIM AND THE GENERAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION—GOALS, METHODS AND PRACTICES

This paper sums up the information of CIM which bas been springed up in resent years in the world, and the information of the general technologies for industry automation in China, their backgrounds, goals, methods, reference models, and some practices in this field. In the part of CIM reference model and architecture, the ESPRIT CIM/OSA, and the Enterprise Reference Architecture and CIM models presented by Purdue University, are all recounted.