The purpose of this project is to promote and standardize a general, object-oriented framework for manufacturing.
Business objects are a very broad class, of which manufacturing objects are only a part.
However, manufacturing plays a major role in the economy. Every business is a consumer of manufactured products, and many businesses are in manufacturing. As a result it is important that a CIM framework be closely integrated into any larger business or enterprise framework. Successful integration is based on well-defined and widely accepted interfaces. Thus the object-oriented approach with its emphasis on interface specification is well adapted to integration.