INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
1.0 PRODUCTION CONTROL SYSTEM SOFTWARE
In his definition K.G Hackyer, defined production in 1990 as an act of putting together human being, material, plant and money in order to provide goods and services. The success of production comes about as a result of effective framework of the cooperate objective production takes place in an environment called a factory. This factory is a place where people are employed for the purposes of making, altering repairing and ornamenting, finishing, clearing, washing, breaking and adopting for sale of any article.
The factory is regarded as a continued staff, self sufficient body and its depending upon integration with the rest of the system are recognized only when other parts of the organization charge. Although this view is fast changing the dangers of these vision are great, for example government legislation may force a marketing change which requires a design modification in turn, can alter production processes in such a way that operations may be displayed with consequent redundancy and retaining problems
These problems would have been seen and their effects integrated if conscious efforts are made by the managers to look outside the four wall of their over production units. Similarly a board decision to change form a selling policy where orders are accepted to a marketing policy where orders are sought will inevitably demand major changes in the whole system of factory management. Again, this can be foreseen it the factory managers look inwards and outwards
Further more, the factory itself provides the environment for its own constituent department and again the interaction of the parts within themselves and with the host environment. The inter dependency between the two produces important consequences
a. Changes in the environment, which imposes changes in the organization and
b. Changes within the firm affects the environment to survive therefore, organization must be prepared to responded to change and managers must not think as if any decision to affect a change is only internal1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
The fact that most organization now handles large volume of data/information that needs to be disseminated to different users to evolve effective corporate management and improved customers service. The information needed to carryout operation secured towards customers satisfaction need must be transmitted properly and timely too
More also, non-availability of efficient funds as well as management for maximization of profits with fewer cost demands that some limited facilities like printers, hard drive fax, moderns is shared among users.1.3 PURPOSE OF TH STUDY
The purpose of this research work is to divulges the concept of production control system software accentuating the technology behind them in terms of equipment, need and general operations
Another reason is to expose the areas where the technology can be applied1.4 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
The system is a tool for controlling production functions that go on daily in a motor manufacturing company. For this reason, aspect of production control such as scheduling and manufacturing authorization is not covered, including some aspects of dispatch process. This system handles the materials (stock) control but does not go into the purchasing and costing. It provides the necessary reports that help in determine when to make purchase it generates the bills of various models or vehicles produced in ANAMMCO
It monitors and controls the activities of various parties to provides timely information that bears on meeting schedules1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
This research work will help to access and document reports from various departments within the company, which will affect immediate decision making. It will also solve the problem of misplacing important document and inaccurate recording. The system will help to meet up with customers order and eliminate the problem of broken promise1.6 LIMITATION OF THE STUDY
It is a listed and proved fact that the road to success is smooth; therefore, the researcher encounters some hindrances.
Some of them worth mentioning are:
1. Time constraint
2. Financial constraint1.7 DEFINITION OF TERMS
For a clear understanding of the terminology used the following terms are hereby operationally defined
Computer
It can b e defined as a device that accepts data in one form (input) and processes it to produce data in another form (output) as information.
Program
This is a set of instruction written on a language of computer. A program is used to make the computer perform a specific task as calculating interest paid to saving account holder.
System
This is a set of related, interacting and inter-connecting dependent element forming a collective entity. It is also a collection of inter-related produces to achieve a specific goal.
Software
These are sets of instructions that are to be carried out by computer in order to accomplish a given task.
Hardware
These are those parts of the computer that we can touch and see (physical parts) e.g keyboard, monitor, mouse etc.
Flowchart
This is a pictorial representation, which shows by means of symbols and inter-connecting lines, the operation or data flow on an information data processing.
Data
This is regarded as an unprocessed fact of figure.
Information
This is processed data.