It is in charge of producing the goods and/or services that are the object of the company. Every production system has various inputs, such as materials, parts, forms, data, labor, customers, capital, energy, etc.
These inputs will be processed in some way in a series of operations, the sequence and quantity of which are specific to each system, forming the so-called Production or Conversion Process.
Flow of a productive system
It is the circulation of materials within a production system as the conversion process is carried out.
Context of a production system It is made up of factors that, being foreign to the production system, affect it in its development and that, in general, are uncontrollable variables.
Evaluation of the performance of a production system There are a series of variables that allow evaluating the performance of a production system.
Referring to the system itself:
- Flexibility: capacity of the production system to adapt to the requirements of the demand as well as to the different organizational strategies. (elaboration of new products, elaboration of different classes of the same product, changing the production mix, etc.)
- Reliability: the probability that the system performs correctly during a certain time.
- Durability: this refers to the probable life of the system, there are different criteria to determine if a system has reached its useful life.
Production management system For decision-making, any decision-making system feeds on information.
On the other hand, in any decision-making system two elements are fundamental, so that control and decision-making are effective.
That is to say, that the operational information is compared with the Control Information and it is seen if it falls within the established tolerances.
If it falls outside of them, diversion information arises that goes to the Decision Center so that it acts accordingly, carrying out what is called Management by Exception.
Otherwise the system controls itself.