The structuring of production control systems

Co‐ordination of the activities of production units is necessary to realise the required delivery performance in the market. These should not conflict with reaching the production economics objectives of each of the units. Production structure is needed to reduce the complexity and should minimise the loss of potential flexibility. Any structure will have some elements in common — the definition of basic elements (e.g. capacities) as a first step in production control structure design; the introduction of product units and the decomposition of the total production control to Goods Flow Control and Production Unit Control; the relationship of sales and manufacturing and the interference of products and capacities as two main determining factors of the Goods Flow Control structure. The generality of these elements means it is possible to develop a small but relatively complete set of reference structures. A reference structure for Goods Flow Control in a repetitive manufacturing situation is discussed. Its main elements are master planning, material co‐ordination, workload control and work order release.

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