Outline of production

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

Production – act of creating 'use' value or 'utility' that can satisfy a want or need. The act may or may not include factors of production other than labor. Any effort directed toward the realization of a desired product or service is a "productive" effort and the performance of such act is production.

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

Types

 * Industry – production of an economic good or service within an economy. Industry is divided into four sectors, or types of production; they are:

Primary sector

 * Primary sector – this involves the extraction of resources directly from the Earth, this includes agricultural and resource extraction industries. In these industries, the product (that is, the focus of production) is a natural resource.
 * Agriculture  (outline) – cultivation of animals, plants, fungi, and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life.
 * Animal husbandry – agricultural practice of breeding and raising livestock.
 * Farming – cultivating land for the purpose of agricultural production.
 * Aquaculture – the farming of fish, crustaceans, molluscs, aquatic plants, algae, and other aquatic organisms.
 * Forestry  (outline) – creating, managing, using, and conserving forests and associated resources in a sustainable manner to meet desired goals, needs, and values for human benefit.
 * Resource extraction –
 * Fishing – activity of catching or harvesting fish and other aquatic animals such as molluscs, cephalopods, crustaceans, and echinoderms.
 * Logging – harvesting timber, including cutting, skidding, on-site processing, and loading trees or logs onto trucks or skeleton cars.
 * Mining  (outline) – extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, from an ore body, vein or (coal) seam.
 * Extraction of petroleum – process by which usable petroleum (oil) is extracted and removed from the earth.
 * Extraction of natural gas – Natural gas is commercially extracted from oil fields and natural gas fields.
 * Water industry – provides drinking water to residential, commercial, and industrial sectors of the economy.

Secondary sector

 * Secondary sector – involves the processing of raw materials from primary industries, and includes the industries that produce a finished, tangible product.
 * Construction – process that consists of the building or assembling of infrastructure, including buildings, roads, dams, etc.
 * Manufacturing – process which involves tools and labor to produce goods for use or sale. Ranges from handicraft to high tech industrial production.

Tertiary sector

 * Tertiary sector – This group is involved in the provision of services. They include teachers, managers and other service providers.

Quaternary sector

 * Quaternary sector – the part of the economy that produces knowledge-based services.
 * Information industry –
 * Information generation and sharing –
 * Information technology –
 * Consulting services –
 * Education –
 * Research and development –
 * Financial planning services –

Goals

 * Product
 * Service

Productivity

 * Productivity
 * Benchmarking
 * Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
 * Cost accounting
 * Experience curve effects / Vocational education
 * Operations research
 * Scheduling and queuing theory
 * Throughput accounting
 * Time and motion study

History

 * History of industry
 * Industrial Revolution
 * History of manufacturing

Theories of production

 * Taylorism
 * Fordism
 * Theory of Constraints
 * Toyotism (Lean manufacturing)

Economics

 * Factors of production
 * Production theory basics
 * Outline of industrial organization
 * Production function
 * Production possibility frontier

Manufacturing

 * Manufacturing
 * Factory
 * English system of manufacturing
 * American system of manufacturing
 * Scale of production
 * Craft production
 * Mass production
 * Batch production
 * Job production
 * Just In Time manufacturing
 * Toyota Production System
 * Lean production
 * Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM)
 * Mass customization

Product engineering

 * Product engineering
 * Industrial and manufacturing engineering
 * Reverse engineering
 * Value engineering

Product design

 * Rapid prototyping
 * Computer-aided design (CAD)
 * New product development
 * Research and development
 * Toolkits for user innovation

Production technology

 * Industrial robot
 * Computer-aided manufacturing
 * Computer Integrated Manufacturing
 * Production equipment control
 * Computer numerically controlled
 * Distributed Control System
 * Fieldbus control system
 * PLCs / PLD
 * Advanced Planning & Scheduling
 * Scheduling (production processes)
 * SCADA supervisory control and data acquisition
 * computerized maintenance management system (CMMS)
 * Packaging and labeling

Machinery

 * Machinery
 * Production line
 * Assembly line
 * Conveyor belt
 * Woodworking machinery
 * Metalworking machinery
 * Textile machinery
 * Equipment manufacturer

Machine set-up

 * Changeover
 * Single-Minute Exchange of Die (SMED)
 * Sequence-dependent setup (mathematical)

Lot size and run length

 * Economic Lot Scheduling Problem
 * Dynamic lot size model
 * Economic order quantity
 * Economic production quantity
 * Economic batch quantity

Service provision

 * Service economy
 * Service system
 * Service design

Logistics

 * Logistics
 * Supply chain
 * Supply chain management
 * Procurement or purchasing
 * Inventory
 * Inventory management
 * Reorder point
 * Just In Time

Process improvement

 * Systems analysis
 * Process modeling
 * Process optimization
 * Quality
 * Quality control
 * Six Sigma
 * Total Quality Management
 * Certification Processes and Awards
 * ISO 9000
 * Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (US)
 * Canada Awards for Excellence (National Quality Institute) (Canada)
 * Deming Prize (Japan)
 * Joseph M. Juran Medal (US)
 * Japan Quality Control Medal (Japan)