production control

noun

: systematic planning, coordinating, and directing of all manufacturing activities and influences to ensure having goods made on time, of adequate quality, and at reasonable cost

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Recent Examples on the Web

Solario, who’s now a production control coordinator for a Valencia race car company and a producer/director for a short films company called Vrge Media, says her earlier money mistakes were ultimately inspirational. —Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2023

The description for the production control supervisor position mentions dealing with customers, external and internal suppliers and helping team members locate parts. —Dan Carson, Chron, 13 Jan. 2023

In a sport that prides itself on knowing every statistical angle, and leans heavily on the use of statistics to quantify player value, shouldn’t rigorous production control be paramount to something so integral to the heart of the game? —Maury Brown, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021

One of Watkins’ newest employees is Eden Allen-Duenas, an assistant manager of production control, who started about 13 months ago. —Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2021

The investment in domestic products, local manufacturing jobs, 100% creative and production control makes sense to me. —Stephan Rabimov, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021

Digital networks control or mediate every stage of economic activity, from innovation and research to design, resource planning, and production control on through to logistics, e-commerce sales, and payment. —Christopher R. O'dea, National Review, 7 Nov. 2019

Was Trump not aware that there is a relatively large system of agriculture subsidies (valued at over $20 billion per year, not counting the costs passed on to consumers by production controls that boost prices)? —Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 12 Apr. 2018

McFarland was employed for 29 years in production control for the Harris Corporation, maker of lithograph printing presses. —Brian Albrecht, cleveland.com, 3 Jan. 2018

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Word History

First Known Use

1929, in the meaning defined above