A recording medium production control device, recording medium production control method, and program instructions stored on a tangible computer-readable medium acquire the operating status of the existing data recording device, printer, and other devices in the recording medium production device, plans an operating command sequence for each of the devices to process a request from an application based on the acquired operating status information for the devices, and controls the operation of the devices according to this operating command sequence to produce optical recording media with maximum production efficiency without the devices interfering with each other. The recording medium production control device 10 has a system control unit 40, a data recording unit driver 51, an auto loader driver 53, and a printer driver 60. The system control unit 40 manages the operating sequence of the devices in the recording medium production device 90 to control the devices of the recording medium production device 90 to not interfere with each other.