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.[1] 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.[2] 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.[3]
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.[4]
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.[5][6]
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)

See also
Assembly line
Computer-aided manufacturing
Division of labour
Economics
Fordism
Mass production
Means of production
Mode of production
Modernity
Outline of industrial organization
Outline of management
Outline of manufacturing
Production function
Production possibility frontier
Production theory basics
Productive and unproductive labour
Productive forces
Productivity improving technologies (historical)
Productivity model
Second Industrial Revolution

References
1. Kotler, P., Armstrong, G., Brown, L., and Adam, S. (2006) Marketing, 7th Ed. Pearson
Education Australia/Prentice Hall.
2. "Industry Definition & Meaning" (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/industry).
3. International Labour Office (1999). Safety and health in agriculture (https://books.google.co
m/books?id=GtBa6XIW_aQC&pg=PA77). International Labour Organization. pp. 77–.
ISBN 978-92-2-111517-5. Retrieved 13 September 2010.
4. "Forestry." SAF Dictionary of Forestry. The Society of American Foresters, 1998. Helms,
John A. <"SAFnet Dictionary | Definition for [forestry]" (https://web.archive.org/web/2013101
9122343/http://dictionaryofforestry.org/dict/term/forestry). Archived from the original (http://dict
ionaryofforestry.org/dict/term/forestry) on 2013-10-19. Retrieved 2014-03-15.>
5. Tor Selstad (1990). "The rise of the quaternary sector. The regional dimension of knowledge-
based services in Norway, 1970-1985". informaworld. "... knowledge-based services ..."
6. Peter Busch (1967). "Tacit Knowledge in Organizational Learning" (https://books.google.co
m/books?id=KGd5hL2-rvQC&q=%22quaternary+sector%22&pg=PT355). Tacit Knowledge
in Organizational Learning. ISBN 9781599045030. Retrieved 2010-06-17. "see page .. The
 quaternary sector of industry is the sector of industry that involves the intellectual services.
That is research, development, and information."

External links
Productivity

Productivity and Costs – Bureau of Labor Statistics (http://www.bls.gov/lpc/) United States

Department of Labor: contains international comparisons of productivity rates, historical and
present
Productivity Statistics - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (http://ww
w.oecd.org/department/0,3355,en_2649_29964795_1_1_1_1_1,00.html)
Greenspan Speech (https://www.federalreserve.gov/BOARDDOCS/SPEECHES/1996/1996
1016.htm)
OECD estimates of labour productivity levels (http://stats.oecd.org/WBOS/Index.aspx?Datas
etCode=LEVEL)
Productivity Enhancement Through Business Automation (http://www.productivityenhancem
ent.com)
Productivity Science - source for personal and business productivity information (http://produ
ctivity-science.com)
Productivity Assessment Framework from Zinnov LLC (https://www.slideshare.net/zinnov/pro
ductivity-framework-4328654)

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