AMICE Consortium was a European organization of major companies, including users, vendors,
consulting companies, and academia, from 1985 to 1995, concerned with Computer Integrated Manufacturing

Computer Integrated Manufacturing

Computer-integrated manufacturing is the manufacturing approach of using computers to control the entire production process. This integration allows individual processes to exchange information with each other and initiate actions...

 (CIM). It was initiated as the ESPRIT project AMICE and was instrumental in the development of Computer Integrated Manufacturing Open Systems Architecture

CIMOSA

CIMOSA stands for "Computer Integrated Manufacturing Open System Architecture", is a enterprise modeling framework, which aims to support the enterprise integration of machines, computers and people...

(CIMOSA).

Publications

The AMICE Consortium has published several books and papers. A selection:

• 1989. Open System Architecture for CIM, Research Report of ESPRIT Project 688, Vol. 1, Springer-Verlag.
• 1991. Open System Architecture, CIMOSA, AD 1.0, Architecture Description, ESPRIT Consortium AMICE, Brussels, Belgium.
• 1992. ESPRIT Project 5288, Milestone M-2, AD2.0, 2, Architecture description,document RO443/1. Consortium AMICE, Brussels, Belgium.
• 1993. CIMOSA: open system architecture for CIM, Springer, 1993.