PLANNING, IMPLEMENTATION, AND CONTROL

Planning

The flow of work through each of the work centers must be planned to meet delivery dates, which means production activity control must do the following:

• Ensure that the required materials, tooling, personnel, and information are available to manufacture the components when  needed.

• Schedule start completion dates for each shop order at each work center so the scheduled completion date of the order can be met. This will involve the planner in developing a load profile for the work centers. 

Implementation

Production activity control must be put them into action by advising the shop floor what must be done. Production activity control will: 

• Gather the information needed by the shop floor to make the product.

• Release order to the shop floor as authorized by the material requirements plan. This is called dispatching.

Control

After plan are made, and shop order released,  the process must be on track to make sure they know what is happening. Production activity control will do the following: 

• Work center must rank the shop orders and establish a dispatch list based on the information.


• Record the performance of works and compared it to planned schedule. To meet delivery requirements, PAC must take corrective action by re-planning, rescheduling, or adjusting capacity.


• Monitor and control work-in-process, lead times, and work center queues.


• Report work center efficiency, operation times, order quantities, and scrap.