5. Development of IPPCM
The IPPCM system has been developed and is aimed to integrate production planning, control and
preventive maintenance functions as shown in Figure 1. Firstly, production planning is created. At this
step, the manufacturing status and capacities are checked. The manufacturing status includes
production rate, man powers and inventory, whereas the manufacturing capacities contain machine,
cutting tools, materials, etc. After that, the Master Production Scheduling (MPS) can be done which is
followed by Process and Operation Planning (POP). At the same time of planning the manufacturing
process and operation, production control and preventive maintenance can be integrated. In this case,
three main functions for making a quality product which meets the ISO 9000 requirements can be
obtimised.