Real-time production control represents a fundamental tool for operational efficiency, process optimization, and intelligent decision-making. This capability consists of monitoring and regulating systems, processes, and production activities immediately and continuously, using updated data to act instantly and ensure optimal performance.
What is real-time control?
Real-time control involves constant data collection through sensors and data acquisition systems, which is analyzed instantly. This provides operators and managers with a precise and updated view of the process status, enabling immediate responses to any deviations, emergencies, or unexpected situations.
The goal of production control is to ensure maximum quality, reduce errors, and optimize resources. Implemented in real-time, this control multiplies its benefits:
- Smooth production processes
- Reduction of unexpected errors
- Optimization of production
- Control of production costs
- Compliance with timing
Advantages of real-time production control
- Real-time data collection: Know scheduled and actual production times, daily targets, and the current progress of each operator or work line.
- Complete visibility for managers: Immediate access to production figures, worker records, incidents, and operational performance.
- Prevention of downtime: Early detection of deviations to anticipate breakdowns or unplanned interruptions.
- Waste management: Control of non-useful products, their causes, and how to minimize them to improve performance and sustainability.
Technologies enabling production control
- APS and SCM – Advanced Planning and Scheduling software: ORSOFT is used for advanced production planning and scheduling and supply chain management.
- DCS/SCADA/MES – Manufacturing Execution System: Full monitoring, control, and management of operations in real-time.
- QMS – Advanced Quality Management software: Based on processes and relevant data to identify quality and detect production defects early.
- WMS – Warehouse Management System: Automates and synchronizes all warehouse operations in real-time.
- CMMS – Computerized Maintenance Management System: GeTag is a CMMS software for planning, controlling, and managing all maintenance department operations.
This integration demonstrates how real-time control and production management converge to provide companies with a solid digital transformation platform, maximizing quality, efficiency, and responsiveness in any industrial environment.en para brindar a las empresas una plataforma sólida de transformación digital, maximizando la calidad, la eficiencia y la capacidad de respuesta de cualquier entorno industrial.