Mastering Production Systems and Quality Control

The Production Function and Its Limiters

The production function involves the manufacturing or processing of goods and services within a company. A production process is essential because the direction of the productive factors depends on several determining factors to obtain a finished pork product. Limiters include: productive capacity, demand, production system design, the product, and the economic environment.

Strategic Production Planning

Production planning is divided into several key stages:

• Strategic Plan: Long-term generic objectives of the company.
• Sales Forecasting: A summary of sales that leads to satisfying production needs.
• Master Plan of Production: The structure of material needs.
• Production Program: Determination of short-term production orders.

Production Control Systems

This is complemented by control systems, including:

• Operating Production Control: Regulating production programming.
• Economic Control of Production: Monitoring and studying the costs of production.

Integral Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Integral Logistics or chain management is the activity of the company that manages, plans, and controls the flow of materials and their storage efficiently and effectively, with the ultimate goal of satisfying the needs of clients. It is based on fundamental elements:

• The total integration of planning and activities of the departments involved to define an efficient decision-making system.
• Organizational business models aimed at satisfying the needs of clients.
• Minimizing production costs.

Quality Management and Technical Specifications

Quality is the set of features and technical specifications that define a product. Quality management can be realized in several ways:

• Inspection techniques: Ensuring that the predicted quality is achieved.
• Process control: Designing production systems properly to avoid problems.
• Quality management.

The Quality Management System

The steps for implementing a quality management system include:

1. Identify the elements that characterize the relevant product quality specifically.
2. Assign a system for objective quality measurement.
3. Determine what is fair for the product quality control systems.
4. Implement quality control systems.
5. Monitor and identify the causes that provoke inadequate quality.

Understanding Quality Costs

Quality-related costs are categorized as follows:

• Prevention Costs: Quality planning.
• Evaluation Costs: Observation and analysis of the characteristics that determine quality.
• Error Costs: Internal costs due to the recovery and resolution of internal quality problems.