Manufacturing organizations have undergone rapid changes within their structure, due to which, more and more manufacturing facilities and products are becoming information enhanced. Information systems can tightly integrate various supply chain components with manufacturing process, allowing the enterprise to smoothly and quickly make the transition from design to build at a known level of risk associated with cost and time. This paper presents an industrial survey that was conducted to study the current status/usage of information technology for manufacture (ITM) in the Trinidad and Tobago (TT) firms. From the results of the survey, it can be seen that considerable scope exists for the introduction of information technology (IT) systems in the Caribbean manufacturing industry.
caribbean region, industrial survey, information technology for manufacture (ITM), IT tools, LAN
