A proposal on enterprise manufacturing information model

When the literature on information technologies in manufacturing systems is studied, it is clear that manufacturing enterprises have to use information technologies effectively and these enterprises have to build a robust information infrastructure and information model for their organization.For this reason in this study an information model called ?Enterprise Manufacturing Information Model: EMIM? is proposed and developed to integrate manufacturing information system for the manufacturing firms. The manufacturing enterprise is analyzed on firm?s organizational, strategic, functional, technical, appraisal and integration-implementation areas by this model.There are a lot of information models for the manufacturing enterprises. These models focus on firms from local or processes point of view. They do not focus on the technical infrastructure in detail. This indicates the need for a more detailed analysis on the technical structure of firms from making the decision for the investment on information system stage to appraising the investment stage. That?s why, this study is conducted to cover this gap.With all of the stages of this integrated model, assisting an effective and compatible information infrastructure and guiding how to build an effective and robust information system is aimed. Also, similarity and overlapping analyses of the model and real enterprises are implemented in two different enterprises.