Shop Floor Control Defined
Shop Floor Control is a system for using data from the shop floor to maintain and communicate status information on shop (manufacturing) orders and work centers. (Source: APICS Dictionary)
Use Shop Floor Control (SFC) when management of production priorities requires work order operations visibility and/or when labor costs are a large part of total production costs
In these types of situations, it is also likely that:
• Products have many operations or long lead times.
• Work center queues are relatively long.
• Labor costs and variances relate to products and work centers.
The SFC module works only with the Work Order module.
