Outline of 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 is a natural resource.
• * Agriculture - 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 - 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 - extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, from an ore body, vein or seam.
• ** Extraction of petroleum - process by which usable petroleum 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
• * 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

  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
• Mass customization

  Product engineering

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

  Product design

• Rapid prototyping
• Computer-aided design
• 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
• SCADA supervisory control and data acquisition
• computerized maintenance management system
• 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
• Sequence-dependent setup

  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
• * Canada Awards for Excellence
• * Deming Prize
• * Joseph M. Juran Medal
• * Japan Quality Control Medal