COMPUTER-INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING -- Out With the Old?

JDF—with its Job Messaging Format (JMF)—incorporates these capabilities, but expands on them in some very important ways, proponents assert. If equipment and system vendors implement the specification in the way its developers intend, JDF will enable:

* Two-way communication, with job parameters transferred down the line and real-time production data reported back up as the work proceeds; and