Production Planning and Control in the Industry 4.0 Era

The problem of production planning and control (PPC) is recurring in the manufacturing sector. With the advent of Industry 4.0 the methods for manag-ing the PPC must now be rethought in order to improve their performance. In this regard, the implementation of cyber-physical systems, on which Industry 4.0 realizations are based, is an important opportunity for the improvement of current PPC systems. This work proposes a new method for the management of PPC in industries that produce according to engineer to order modality. The method, implemented as a PPC software application, was introduced during the implementation of the SMART INDUSTRY 4.0 project and is currently used by the STAMEC industry beneficiary of the case study described in the paper