Homogeneous production processes and approaches to their management

The logistics as one of the levels of company management deals with managing and securing flows in chains and networks. Typical chain in production enterprises of extracting and processing raw materials are production processes, the chain of production operations. Production processes in the industry that belong to the class are homogeneous production processes. This article discusses the methodology of creating management systems in terms of their specifics. The basic characteristic of homogeneous production processes (HPP) is manufacturing one product, respectively narrow assortment of products. HPP has specific characteristics and features, such as continuous material flow, discrete and continuity operations and facilities, notably in terms of heating equipment, long life and high investment costs for the construction, big inertia in terms of management, etc. This group also includes the processes and procedures of raw materials extraction processes, processing of raw materials, metallurgical processes, petrochemical manufacturing, building materials processes, etc. Continuously discrete processes, before modelling, are necessary to be transformed into discrete form, because there is a lot of tools for their modelling in the area of discrete processes. This requires specific approaches for their modelling, management and logistics. The basic management principle applied to such processes is a Feed forward, which can provide theoretical invariance of the controlled process.