Analysis of production activity control mechanisms for industry 4.0

Production Activity Control Mechanisms (PACM) play a crucial role in Industry 4.0 oriented Production Management strategies and approaches as through these PACM it turns out to be possible to ensure the accomplishment of production orders by meeting jobs’ due dates, along with a variety of other kind of requirements and constraints that usually characterize production management problems, such as product quality and costs requirements, among a set of other more problem-specific conditions. The objective of this paper is to put for-ward a comparative analysis about the application of three different mechanisms of Production Activity Control in a Flexible Flow Shop, based on simulation. Thus, an extended comparative analysis, based on several different comparison criteria and parameters is presented in this paper. © 2019, Cefin Publishing House. All rights reserved.