Hypermedia Information Management: A New Paradigm

Description/Abstract

As information relating to manufacturing becomes more complex, it is inevitable that information overload will occur. When the information can not be retrieved with ease, it is human nature to work without it. This paper discusses the use of open hypermedia system, to provide a solution. To be viable the hypermedia resource base must operate factory wide, and not centred on a single piece of plant, however the scale of the problem introduces a wide range of problems. The development of a successful authoring strategy is presented.