Object-oriented Software For Manufacturing Systems

1 Introduction.- 1.1 Objects And Object-oriented Software.- 1.2 Objective And Target Audience Of The Book.- 1.3 Organization Of The Book.- 1.4 Conclusion.- References.- One Conceptual Background.- 2 Object-oriented Software Systems: Concepts.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Key Concepts.- 2.3 Object Communication.- 2.4 Comparison With Structured Analysis And Design.- 2.5 Software Life Cycle Benefits.- 2.6 Prototyping And Software Evolution.- 2.7 Software Reuse.- 2.8 Potential Limitations.- 2.9 Conclusion.- References.- 3 Object-oriented Software: Relevance To Manufacturing.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Software Development Aspects Of Cim.- 3.3 Communication Issues.- 3.4 Integration Problems.- 3.5 Conclusion.- References.- Summary: Part One.- Two Design And Implementation Techniques.- 4 Towards An Object-oriented Architecture For Cim Systems.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 A Conceptual Framework.- 4.3 Description Of The Modules.- 4.4 Communication Between Modules (and The Plant).- 4.5 Special Concerns.- 4.6 Implementation Perspective.- 4.7 Working With Existing Applications And Future Extensions.- 4.8 Related Work Of Interest.- 4.9 Limitations.- 4.10 Conclusion.- References.- 5 Prototyping Object Systems And Reusable Object Libraries.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 Review Of Existing Design Methods.- 5.3 Rationale For Our Approach.- 5.4 Our Design Approach.- 5.5 An Example Manufacturing Facility.- 5.6 Object-oriented Library For Modeling The Facility.- 5.7 State Transition Diagrams.- 5.8 Conclusion.- References.- 6 Object-oriented Databases.- 6.1 Needs Of The Engineeringmanufacturing Domains.- 6.2 Towards An Object Model For Database Management.- 6.3 Object Identity.- 6.4 Schema Evolution.- 6.5 Versioning.- 6.6 Storage.- 6.7 Querying.- 6.8 Commercial Oodmbs.- 6.9 Conclusion.- References.- 7 Comparing Object-oriented Programming Languages.- 7.1 Introduction.- 7.2 Smalltalk.- 7.3 Object-oriented Extensions To Lisp.- 7.4 Object-oriented Extensions To C.- 7.5 C.- 7.6 Objective-c.- 7.7 Comparing Ob