Introduction to Production

Planning & Control (PPC)

and its functions at a glance

Imtiaz Ahmed
Lecturer
Department of IPE, BUET

Operations Management
Operation: Making output by processing
input
Production: Production is the creation of
goods and services
Operations Management: It is the set of
activities that creates value in the form of
goods and services by transforming inputs
into outputs.

Economic
system/Feedback loop

Production Planning & Control System (PPC)

Resource Planning

Aggregate Planning

Demand
Management
(Forecasting)

Master Production Schedule (MPS)

Bill of
Materials
(BOM)

Material Requirements Planning

(MRP)

Inventory
status data

Scheduling
Order Release
Shop floor
control

Purchase

Types of Production
Systems
Based on material flow characteristics:
a)

Discontinuous flow manufacturing:

Lot/batch production in machine shop.

b)

Continuous flow manufacturing: Mass

production or line production, material
flows continuously to the end of the line.

Types of Production
Systems
Based on product and its associated
process:
a)

Discrete manufacturing: Each part is

manufactured by separate operations and
then assembled (Motorcycle)

b)

Process manufacturing:
production (Cream)

Voluminous

Types of Production
Systems
Based on customers ordering and
producers production policy:
a)
b)
c)
d)

Make to stock (minimum or zero lead time)

Make to order (lead time depends on order)
Assembly to order (This is how DELL works!!)
Engineers to order (Engineer will specify the
material, measurements etc. otherwise similar
to make to order)

*Lead time is the time between order placement & receive

Discontinuous/Continuous Manufacturing
Product: Heterogeneous/small variety or single
product
Types of production facility: General
purpose/Special
Material Handling Equipment: Mobile/Conveyor
Facility Layout: Wide/narrow
Operator's skill: More/less
Workload: Unbalanced/balanced
Degree of flexibility: More/less
Cycle time: More/less
Material flow: Slow/Rapid