Production control

Within supply chain management and manufacturing, production control is the activity of monitoring and
controlling any particular production or operation. Production control is often run from a specific control
room or operations room. With inventory control and quality control, production control is one of the key
functions of operations management.[1]

Overview
Production control is the activity of monitoring and controlling a large physical facility or physically
dispersed service. It is a "set of actions and decision taken during production to regulate output and obtain
reasonable assurance that the specification will be met."[2] The American Production and Inventory Control
Society, nowadays APICS, defined production control in 1959 as:

Production control is the task of predicting, planning and scheduling work, taking into
account manpower, materials availability and other capacity restrictions, and cost so as to
achieve proper quality and quantity at the time it is needed and then following up the
schedule to see that the plan is carried out, using whatever systems have proven
satisfactory for the purpose.[3]

Production planning and control in larger factories is often run from a production planning department run
by production controllers and a production control manager. Production monitoring (https://ilabo.com/blog/
production-monitoring/) and control of larger operations is often run from a central space, called a control
room or operations room or operations control center (OCC).

The emerging area of Project Production Management (PPM), based on viewing project activities as a
production system, adopts the same notion of production control to take steps to regulate the behavior of a
production system where in this case the production system is a capital project, rather than a physical
facility or a physically dispersed service.

Production control is to be contrasted with project controls. As explained,[4] project controls have
developed to become centralized functions to track project progress and identify deviations from plan and
to forecast future progress, using metrics rooted in accounting principles.

Types
One type of production control is the control of manufacturing operations.

Production planning and control of the when and where.

Production control and supply chain management

Management of real-time operational in specific fields.

Production control in the television studio in a production control room

Master control in television studio
Production control in spaceflight in a Mission Operations Control Room
Communist countries had a central production control institute,
where the agricultural and industrial production for the whole
nation was planned and controlled.

In Customer Care environments production control is known as

Workforce Management (WFM). Centralized Workforce
Management teams are often called Command Center, Mission
Control or WFM Shared Production Centers.

Related types of control in organizations

Production control is just one of multiple types of control in
organizations. Most commons other types are: Powerplant control room, 1983

Management control, one of the managerial functions

like planning, organizing, staffing and directing. It is an important function because it helps to
check the errors and to take the corrective action so that deviation from standards are
minimized and stated goals of the organization are achieved in a desired manner.
Inventory control, the supervision of supply, storage and accessibility of items in order to
ensure an adequate supply without excessive oversupply.
Quality control, the process by which entities review the quality of all factors involved in
production.

See also
Control (management)
Industrial engineering
Manufacturing process management
Materials management
Operations management
Production engineering
Project production management
Time book

References
1. K.C. Arora. Production and Operations Management. 2004. p. 7
2. S. N. Ghosh (ed.) Cement and Concrete Science & Technology. 1991. p. 419
3. APICS (1959) cited in: Kenneth N. McKay, Vincent C. S. Wiers (2004). Practical Production
Control: A Survival Guide for Planners and Schedulers, p. 29
4. "Contrasting Project Production Control with Project Controls," R.J. Arbulu, H-J. Choo, M.
Williams, Proc. International Conference on Innovative Production and Construction (IPC
2016), 3–5 October 2016, Darwin, Australia

Further reading
Bedworth, David D., and James E. Bailey. Integrated production control systems:
management, analysis, design. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999.
 Eilon, Samuel. Elements of production planning and control. Macmillan, 1962.
Groover, Mikell P. Automation, production systems, and computer-integrated manufacturing.
Prentice Hall Press, 2007.
Johnson, Lynwood A., and Douglas C. Montgomery. Operations research in production
planning, scheduling, and inventory control. Vol. 6. New York: Wiley, 1974.
C.E. Knoeppel. Graphic production control (https://archive.org/details/graphicproductio00kno
e). New York, The Engineering magazine company, 1920
Koontz, Harold. "A preliminary statement of principles of planning and control." Academy of
Management Journal 1.1 (1958): 45-61.
Sipper, Daniel, and Robert L. Bulfin. Production: planning, control, and integration. McGraw-
Hill Science, Engineering & Mathematics, 1997.

External links
Media related to Production control at Wikimedia Commons

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