Following definitions explain main characteristics of production management:
• It is the process of effective planning and regulating operations of the production section of an enterprise which is responsible for the act transforming materials into finished products.
• Production management provides decisions to the production process for ensuring that the resulting goods and services are produced in accordance with the quantitative specifications and demand schedule with minimum cost.
• Production management is a set of general principles for production economics. Facility design, job design, schedule design, quality control, inventory control, work study, and cost and budgetary control are some application examples for the production management. This definition
explains the main areas of an enterprise where the principles of production management can be applied.