TY  - JOUR
AB  - Associated Newspapers have recently moved to a new £150m
production facility in the London Docklands development area. The new
production plant is one of the most modern printing plants in Europe for
newspaper printing. With a “greenfield” site the Associated
Newspapers management were able to plan and purchase state‐of‐the‐art
technology for all phases of their production processes. These include a
computer‐controlled press management system, a publishing system,
automatically guided vehicles, an automated warehouse and a plate‐making
system. These five different computer based systems were integrated
using local area networks; and an Oracle based Management Information
System (MIS) developed to collect data for management use. A number of
reports are automatically generated at shift end, while other ad hoc enquiries can be made using the standard Oracle facilities at any
time, as the database is updated frequently by the MIS. For the first
time the Associated Newspapers management are able to examine and
monitor their production processes in real‐time rather than many hours
after the event.
VL  - 2
IS  - 3
SN  - 0957-6061
DO  - 10.1108/09576069110142252
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/09576069110142252
AU  - Fitzgerald Alan
PY  - 1991
Y1  - 1991/01/01
TI  - Relational Database Technology: Its Use for Real‐time
Management Information
T2  - Integrated Manufacturing Systems
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 13
EP  - 17
Y2  - 2024/04/24
ER  -