The application of management to the field of production has been the result of the creation of the factory system for producing goods.

Production management stems from the development of the large corporation with multiple owners and the necessity to hire people for operating businesses.

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.

Production management plays a strategic role in an organization’s competitive success.

Production management is a process that produces families of parts within a single line or cell of machines operated by operators who work only within the line or the cell.