ABSTRACT
The making of any type of motor vehicle involves in general three basic stages: design, manufacturing of parts and the assembly of parts, first into sub-sections and then into the complete vehicle. A characteristic of production under licence, as with El Nasr Automotive Company (NASCO), is that design is very limited and in practice restricted to minor engineering changes imposed by local requirements. At NASCO the term production control is used for both manufacturing and assembly as well as for materials supply, in accordance with general practice. The average cost of material for NASCO was 200 million EGP in 1984, and is thus by far the dominant cost factor. NASCO as a public industry is a part of the government's long-term development planning. NASCO is among the pioneering companies using computers in Egyptian industry. The chapter discusses systems of computer production control will be classified in accordance with different types of co-ordination.
