AMICE Consortium

AMICE Consortium was a European organization of major companies concerned with computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM). It was initiated in 1985 and dissolved in 1995, and eventually included users, vendors, consulting companies, and academia. Among the participating companies were IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), Siemens, Fiat, and Daimler-Benz.

The AMICE Consortium was initiated as European Strategic Program on Research in Information Technology (ESPRIT) project to bring together stakeholders in the development of CIM for the development of new standards for CIM systems. This led to the development of the Computer Integrated Manufacturing Open Systems Architecture (CIMOSA), which defined "a comprehensive set of constructs sufficient to describe all aspects of manufacturing systems." This reference architecture can model the functions, information, resources and organisation of any particular enterprise.