It Systems Supporting the Management of Production Capacity

Abstract

The paper presents the problem of manufacturing process flexibility in view of a company’s material and information flow stream management. The author of the article has described the functions of a production process control system and presented the characteristics of production capacity intensive and extensive reserves. The MRP II/ERP, MES and APS class IT tools supporting the process of production planning, organization and control have also been discussed.

Keywords

• production control system
• mrp
• mes
• aps
• intensive and extensive reserves