Outline of production explained

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

External links

Productivity

• Productivity and Costs – Bureau of Labor Statistics United States Department of Labor: contains international comparisons of productivity rates, historical and present
• Productivity Statistics - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
• Greenspan Speech
• OECD estimates of labour productivity levels
• Productivity Enhancement Through Business Automation
• Productivity Science - source for personal and business productivity information
• Productivity Assessment Framework from Zinnov LLC

Notes and References

1. Kotler, P., Armstrong, G., Brown, L., and Adam, S. (2006) Marketing, 7th Ed. Pearson Education Australia/Prentice Hall.
2. Web site: Industry Definition & Meaning .
3. Book: International Labour Office. Safety and health in agriculture. 13 September 2010. 1999. International Labour Organization. 978-92-2-111517-5. 77–.
4. "Forestry." SAF Dictionary of Forestry. The Society of American Foresters, 1998. Helms, John A. SAFnet Dictionary | Definition for [forestry] . 2014-03-15 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131019122343/http://dictionaryofforestry.org/dict/term/forestry . 2013-10-19 . >
5. News: Tor Selstad . The rise of the quaternary sector. The regional dimension of knowledge-based services in Norway, 1970-1985 . informaworld . ... knowledge-based services ... . 1990.
6. News: Peter Busch . Tacit Knowledge in Organizational Learning . Tacit Knowledge in Organizational Learning . see page .. The quaternary sector of industry is the sector of industry that involves the intellectual services. That is research, development, and information. . 1967 . 9781599045030 . 2010-06-17.