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