Introductory overview -- Shortcomings and extensions of relational DBMS -- Evaluation of object-oriented database systems -- Active object-oriented database systems for CIM applications -- Databridge between RDBMS and OODBMS -- Database requirements of CIM applications -- Planning and scheduling -- Operational research models and methods in CIM -- Production planning and control systems - State of the art and new directions -- Simulation - A tool for developing advanced production strategies -- Dynamic modeling of CIM systems -- Fuzzy modeling and control -- Foundations of computer communications -- Information Management and Information Systems Planning -- Overview of function modelling - IDEFO -- Data modeling with IDEF1X -- Automatic programming in CIM based on intelligent tools -- Model based decision support systems -- Man - Machine interface for CIM -- Designing for evolutionary systems -- Active subsystems for CIM environments -- CAD systems: trends and developments -- Concurrent engineering -- Groupwork in the shop-floor-area needs decentral CIM-structures and components -- Does CIM need AI? -- Multi-agent-systems - A natural trend in CIM -- Production scheduling and genetic algorithms -- Implementation of systems with declarative constraints -- Qualitative reasoning and CIM -- Comparison and analysis of selected CIM-laboratory concepts and their importance for the improvement of staff training -- The use of the active database SIMON for a short term production planning system in the automotive industry.