List of production topics

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

History of production

Main article: History of production

General production concepts

Manufacturing and manufacturing systems

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

Theories of production

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

Productivity

• Productivity
• Benchmarking
• Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
• Changeover
• Cost accounting
• Experience curve effects (learning curve effects)
• Lot size and run length
• Operations research
• Scheduling and queuing theory
• Throughput accounting
• Time and motion study

Production engineering

• Industrial and manufacturing engineering
• Reverse engineering
• Value engineering

Production technology

• Assembly line
• Industrial robot
• Computer-aided manufacturing
• Computer Integrated Manufacturing
• Production equipment control
• Computer numerically controlled
• Distributed Control System
• Fieldbus control system
• PLCs / PLD
• Conveyor belt
• Advanced Planning & Scheduling
• Scheduling (production processes)
• SCADA

Machinery

• Woodworking machinery
• Metalworking machinery
• Textile machinery
• Equipment manufacturer

Process improvement

• Systems analysis
• 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)

The economics of production

• Production theory basics
• Production, costs, and pricing
• Production function
• Production possibility frontier

Logistics

• Supply chain
• Supply chain management

• Procurement or purchasing
• Inventory
  • Inventory management
  • Economic order quantity
  • Just In Time

Product design

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

Industries

• Agriculturally-based manufacturing
  • Food
    • Beer
    • Chicken nuggets
    • Chocolate
    • Ice Cream
  • Textiles
    • Cotton
    • Lace
    • Lingerie
  • Timber
    • Particleboard
    • Pulp and paper
  • Tobacco
• Chemicals
  • Cosmetics
  • Petrochemicals
  • Pharmaceuticals (See animation below)
• Electronics
  • Casing
  • PCBs
  • Semiconductors
• Glass
• Metals Taxonomy of manufacturing processes
  • Ferrous
    • Beams
    • Cars
  • Non-ferrous
    • Aluminium cans
    • Wire and Cable
  • Ferrous and Non-ferrous
    • Electric motors
    • Jet engines
• Plastics
  • Extrusion
  • Moulding
• Print
• Quarry-based manufacturing
  • Asphalt
  • Bricks
  • Concrete

Persons influential in the field of production

Production scholars

See also

Production portal

• List of accounting topics
• List of automation protocols
• List of basic agriculture topics
• List of basic manufacturing topics
• List of economics topics
• List of engineering topics
• List of environmental issues
• List of information technology management topics
• List of management topics
• List of sustainable agriculture topics
• List of Theory of Constraints topics

References

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