ABSTRACT
Meadows & Butler is a division of a UK holding company which has three other major divisions operating in diversified product sectors. It produces in a specialist sector of the engineering industry, and supplies its products to a number of organizations in both the public and private sectors. The adoption and introduction of the particular form of new technology was handled throughout entirely within Meadows & Butler. The chapter explains how the operation of the inventory and production control system (IPCS) has been affected, and the reader will then be able to see why the later Computer Aided Design and Draughting adoption has largely been dealt with on an engineering-group basis. The objectives which came to be set for the new IPCS computer system can be better understood through addressing, what were seen by managers in the organization, in the months preceding the beginning of the process of adoption, as central company problems.
