Manufacturing

 Manufacturing plants comprise of various processes, people and systems whose purpose is to create products of increased value from the use of the given raw materials.

Manufacturing planning and control is necessary in the acquisition, utilization and allocation of production resources in order to meet the requirements efficiently and effectively. Such decisions include production lot sizes, sequencing of production and work force levels. Other plans made include master production scheduling, material requirements planning, and capacity requirements planning.

Manufacturing can be categorized into two different process which entail process-based and discrete-based manufacturing. 

Process-based manufacturing industries make use of two processes:

• Continuous Manufacturing Processes : these run continuously with transitions to create varieties of a product.
•  Batch Manufacturing Processes : these consist of distinct processing steps done onto one amount of material. This process is usually utilized in the food industry.

Discrete-based manufacturing industries however a carry out a series of steps by the use of a single device to create the end product. This process is usually applied to Electronic and mechanical parts assembly industry.

It should be noted however, that process-based and discrete-based industries both utilize the same types of control systems, sensors, and networks.

In this project, process-based manufacturing would be the type of process used with a sub-catagory use of Batch Manufacturing processes.