Production Control:

Shop-floor Control

It is a system utilized to maintain and communicate the information flow in the shop-floor. For the appropriate functioning of whole process this control system plays an significant role. The main function of shop-floor control includes :

1. Resolve the order of processing of the raw jobs.

2. Maintains the correct record of work-in-process.

3. Measures the utilization, efficiency and other performance associated to workstations and shop-floor.

4. (d)Acts as an information medium for the managers by conveying information of the status of shop-floor to the manager's office.

Tools for the Shop Floor Control

The basic tools required for the shop-floor control are as follows :

1. A dispatch list is used to describe the information related to processing status of jobs in the shop-floor.

2. An anticipated delay reports utilized to convey the information to supervisors related to delayed jobs, reason of delay and their effect on the whole system.

3. Reports associated to the job scraps along with their rework possibilities.

4. Reports associated to performance measures of the entire firm.

5. Information associated to input/output control of the system to observe the workload of the workstations.