Harhalakis, GeorgeLin, Chang-PinMark, LeoA mechanism with the potential to control the information flow among all of the manufacturing application systems, in order to streamline factory activities, based on company-specific and company-wide policies and procedures is proposed here. The goal is to achieve a fully integrated manufacturing management system. The INformation Systems for Integrated Manufacturing (INSIM) reflects a design methodology to build a knowledge base to serve as the control mechanism.en-USgraph theoryknowledge representationcomputer integrated manufacturingdatabasesmanufacturingManufacturing SystemsTechnical Report