INTRODUCTION

1. Why should I learn more about Production Control?

2. Why is it so difficult to meet the expectations of Production Control?

3. What is the difference between Supply Chain Management and Production Control?

4. Chapter quizz

THE PRODUCTION SYSTEM

1. Should you produce what you sell? or should you sell what you produce?

2. What is the difference between a flow- and a functional-oriented Production System?

3. Flow-oriented Production System

4. Functional-oriented Production System

5. How to establish a quick, lean and predictable Production System?

6. Which are the crucial processes in your Production System?

7. Which are the sub- and support processes?

8. Chapter quizz

PLANNING & PREPARATION

1. What do we mean by Planning?

2. How to plan and prepare the various processes?

3. Could more detailed planning improve your delivery performance?

4. Another approach is to strive for simplicity

5. Chapter quizz

EXECUTION

1. When to start the execution of a production order?

2. What controls the production lead-time?

3. What is the relation between WIP and Leadtime?

4. Why not completely remove queues and waiting time?

5. How to combine maximal throughput with short and predictable lead-times?

6. What is a bottleneck and how to identify it?

7. How to utilize the bottlenecks?

8. How to keep WIP low and limited?

   1. KANBAN

   2. CONWIP

   3. Drum-Buffer-Rope

   4. TAKT

9. How to establish reliable production processes?

10. What to do when things go wrong?

11. Chapter quizz

MANAGEMENT

1. What is delivery precision?

2. What will happen if we don't keep our promises?

3. How do you know you have a good Production Control?

4. Long order stock and short delivery times - an impossible combination?

5. How is profitability increased when limited by bottlenecks?

6. Where to start?

7. Is the path forward clear?

8. How far should you go?

9. Chapter quizz

Final test