Outline of manufacturing

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to manufacturing:

Manufacturing – use of machines, tools and labor to produce goods for use or sale. Includes a range of human activity, from handicraft to high-tech, but most commonly refers to industrial production, where raw materials are transformed into finished goods on a large scale.

Overview

 * Factory
 * Heavy industry
 * Light industry
 * Mass production
 * Production line

Some manufacturing industries

 * Aerospace industry
 * Automotive industry
 * Chemical industry
 * Computer industry
 * Electronics industry
 * Food processing industry
 * Garment industry
 * Pharmaceutical industry
 * Pulp and paper industry
 * Toy industry

History

 * Handicraft

Origins of manufacturing
Industrial Revolution

Emergence of the factory
Factory


 * History of the factory
 * Factory system

Improvement of industrial processes

 * Industrial process
 * Casting

Theories applied to manufacturing

 * Taylorism
 * Fordism
 * Scientific management

Organizational control

 * Management
 * Total Quality Management
 * Quality control
 * Six Sigma

Manufacturing systems

 * Craft or Guild system
 * American System of manufacturing
 * British factory system of manufacturing
 * Soviet collectivism in manufacturing
 * Mass production
 * Just In Time manufacturing
 * Lean manufacturing
 * Flexible manufacturing
 * Mass customization
 * Agile manufacturing
 * Rapid manufacturing
 * Prefabrication
 * Toyota production system
 * Financial system
 * Public and commerce industry
 * Accrual basis
 * Cash basis
 * Merchandising inventory
 * Trade discount
 * Sales discount
 * Memorandum


 * Additive manufacturing
 * Subtractive manufacturing
 * Agile manufacturing
 * Fabrication
 * Flexible manufacturing
 * Just-in-time manufacturing
 * Lean manufacturing
 * Manufacturing engineering
 * Mass customization
 * Mass production
 * Numerical control
 * Prefabrication
 * Rapid manufacturing
 * Reconfigurable manufacturing system
 * High performance positioning system

Product design

 * Rapid prototyping
 * Computer aided design
 * New product development
 * Toolkits for User Innovation
 * Configuration systems

Manufacturing engineering

 * Production engineering
 * Industrial engineering
 * Computer-aided manufacturing
 * Computer integrated manufacturing
 * Numerically controlled
 * Computer numerically controlled
 * Distributed control systems
 * Fieldbus control systems
 * PLCs
 * Packaging and labeling

Assembly systems

 * Assembly line

Modern manufacturing processes
Taxonomy of manufacturing processes

Manufacturing process management

Concepts

 * Capital (economics)
 * Capital investment
 * Consumer
 * Conveyor belt
 * Depreciation
 * Distributor
 * Factory
 * Fixed asset
 * Industrial process
 * Machine tool
 * Manufacturing
 * List of manufacturing processes
 * Mass production
 * Plant
 * Primary sector
 * Process manufacturing
 * Procurement
 * Production line
 * Raw materials
 * Retailer
 * Supply chain
 * Warehouse
 * Wholesaler
 * Workers

Lists

 * Outline of engineering
 * Outline of business management
 * Outline of production
 * Outline of marketing
 * Outline of economics
 * Outline of finance
 * List of international trade topics
 * List of accounting topics
 * List of business law topics
 * List of human resource management topics
 * List of business theorists
 * List of economists
 * List of largest manufacturing companies by revenue

By country

 * Manufacturing in Australia
 * Manufacturing in Chad
 * Manufacturing in China
 * Manufacturing in Ethiopia
 * Manufacturing in Ghana
 * Manufacturing in Hong Kong
 * Manufacturing in Japan
 * Manufacturing in Mexico
 * Manufacturing in Puerto Rico
 * Manufacturing in Vietnam
 * Manufacturing in the United Kingdom
 * Manufacturing in the United States
 * Manufacturing in India