Subject: Production Engineering and Robotics

Difficulty: Medium

Marks: 6 Marks

• Production control is one of the most important function of manufacturing firm which plans,directs and controls the material supply and processing activities of an enterprise, so that specified products are produced as per schedule.
• If there is any actual performance from planned performance ,corrective steps are suggested to improve performance.
• So it is the procedure of planning, routing, scheduling, dispatching and expediting the flow of materials,parts, sub assemblies, and assemblies within the plant from the raw state to the finished product in a orderly and efficient manner.
• A control system involves four stages namely observation,analysis,corrective action and post-operation evaluation.
• Production control system considers these elements in its different functions.
• The control of production is necessary to be sure that the production schedules are being met and the job will be delivered as per the predecided plans.
• It involves an information feedback mechanism and a system of corrective action.
• Production control follows up the scheduled plans, compares the actual output with the planned one, and points out deviation, if any, so that the same can be corrected through the adjustments of men, materials and machines.

• In brief ,a production control receives work progress reports,compares them with the scheduled plans, removes causes of delays in production,modifies the schedules or plant capacities and expedites the work.

  Benefits of Production Control

  1.Improvements in profits through the reduction in indirect costs, set up costs, reduction in scrap, inventory costs.

  2.Competitive advantage-reliable delivery to customers, lower production costs and greater pricing flexibility.