SHOP FLOOR CONTROL

Department of Mechanical Engineering

ME 6703 - Computer Integrated Manufacturing
Systems

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 SHOP FLOOR CONTROL

• Shop floor control is concerned with the

release of production orders to the factory,
monitoring and controlling
• the progress of the orders through the
various work centers, and acquiring current
information on the status of the orders.

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 SHOP FLOOR CONTROL
• Order release.
• order scheduling.
• Order progress.

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 Order Release
• Collection of document is sometimes
called the shop packet.
• Route sheet.
• Material requisitions.
• Job cards.
• Move tickets.
• Parts list.

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 Order Scheduling
• Machine loading
• job sequencing.

Priorities for production orders:

• First-come-first serve.
• Earliest due date.
• Shortest processing time.
• Least slack time.
• Critical ratio.

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• Priorities of the different orders.
• Lower or higher than expected demand for certain
products.
• Equipment breakdowns that cause delays in
production,
• Cancellation of an order by a customer,
• Defective raw materials that delay an order.

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 Order Progress
• Work order status reports.
• Progress reports.
• Exception reports.

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 Factory Data Collection System
• Factory data collection system.
• To supply status and performance data to the shop floor
control system.
• To provide current information to production foremen, plant
management. and production control personnel.

Manual (Clerical) Data Input Techniques.

• Job traveler.
• Employee time sheets.
• Operation tear strips.
• Prepunched cards.
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 Automated and Semi-Automated Data
Collection Systems.

• One centralized terminal.

• Satellite terminals.
• Workstation terminals.

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