Computer Integrated Manufacturing Architecture: A Literature Review Abdelkarim Remli, Amal Khtira and Bouchra El Asri IMS Team, ADMIR Laboratory, Rabat IT Center, ENSIAS, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco Keywords: Manufacturing systems, Smart Manufacturing, Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Systems Architecture. Abstract: The exponential technological revolution has had a positive impact on industrial companies, providing them with plenty of opportunities to improve their production flows and optimize their costs. This revolution has led to contemporary computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) that consists of linking the shop floor systems to the high business layer. And in order to do that, there has been some research to define a reference architecture to cover all the use cases. This paper presents a literature review of CIM architectures. The purpose of this review is to enumerate the different aspects covered by the different architectures in the literature and the approaches proposed to handle them. 1 INTRODUCTION Competition and rapidly changing customer demands are calling for continuous changes in manufactur- ing environments. For that, the competitive com- panies had to effectively handle the concurrent evo- lution of products, processes and production sys- tems (Farid Meziane, 2000). As a result, companies started to integrate information technologies from other fields in the manufacturing process. This change has had several names such as Smart Manufacturing (Li et al., 2019) and Computer integrated manufactur- ing (Thomas Hedberg, 2016). This trend consists of two major elements: Com- puterizing the industrial processes, and facilitating the exchange of data. This can be achieved through inte- grating every system in the manufacturing process in the same architecture in order to create a fully con- nected plant, where every retrieved data is reusable to optimize the various business processes. This is what we call a smart factory (Li et al., 2017). To achieve that, we should ensure the connection between the dif- ferent levels of the plant, from the shop floor level that contains the production machines, to the highest level of the plant where the company’s strategies are established. This connection is challenged by the in- herent difficulty of aggregating and applying context to data from heterogeneous systems across the pro- duction life cycle (Tolio et al., 2013). Therefore, the researches have been able to propose several solutions that are able to encompass all of the company’s major IT systems into one architecture while ensuring the interchangeability among them. In this paper, we present a literature review on the contributions regarding Computer integrated Manu- facturing Architectures. The main objective of this review is to go over the literature in this field between 2015 and 2019 and to identify the number and the na- ture of contributions in the collected papers, as well as the different aspects covered by them. We identi- fied six aspects that we deemed essential to handle in a contribution: Data integration, Systems integration, Security, Monitoring & Data analysis, Mobility and finally Cloud computing. This paper is sequenced as follows: Section 2 ex- plains the literature review methodology we will fol- low. In Section 3, we analyze and discuss the results found against the predefined research questions. Sec- tion 4 presents some limitations of the study. Finally, Section 5 concludes the paper. 2 RESEARCH STRATEGY Through time, researchers have been able to propose several architectures and models for computer inte- grated manufacturing that can have the ability to han- dle multi systems data. To analyse these solutions, we decided to conduct a review of the different ap- proaches proposed in the literature. For this pur- pose, we followed the same stages and steps of a Sys- tematic Literature Review (SLR) as recommended in Kitchenham’s guidelines (Kitchenham, 2007). The SLR protocol is composed of six main steps: 1) Identification of research questions and Research Strings, 2) Search in the Data Sources, 3) Definition Remli, A., Khtira, A. and El Asri, B. Computer Integrated Manufacturing Architecture: A Literature Review. DOI: 10.5220/0010148002490256 In Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2020) - Volume 3: KMIS, pages 249-256 ISBN: 978-989-758-474-9 Copyright c  2020 by SCITEPRESS – Science and Technology Publications, Lda. All rights reserved 249