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Outline of manufacturing

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Outline of manufacturing

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

Contents

Manufacturing – use of machines, tools and labor to produce goods for use or sale. Includes a range of human activity, from handicraft to high-tech, but most commonly refers to industrial production, where raw materials are transformed into finished goods on a large scale.

Overview

  • Factory
  • Heavy industry
  • Light industry
  • Mass production
  • Production line

    • Some manufacturing industries

  • Aerospace industry
  • Automotive industry
  • Chemical industry
  • Computer industry
  • Electronics industry
  • Food processing industry
  • Garment industry
  • Pharmaceutical industry
  • Pulp and paper industry
  • Toy industry

    • History

  • Handicraft
  • History of the factory

    • Origins of manufacturing

  • Factory system

    • Theories applied to manufacturing

  • Taylorism
  • Fordism
  • Scientific management

    • Organizational control

  • Management
  • Total Quality Management
  • Quality control
  • Six Sigma

    • Manufacturing systems

  • Craft or Guild system
  • American System of manufacturing
  • British factory system of manufacturing
  • Soviet collectivism in manufacturing
  • Mass production
  • Just In Time manufacturing
  • Lean manufacturing
  • Flexible manufacturing
  • Mass customization
  • Agile manufacturing
  • Rapid manufacturing
  • Prefabrication
  • Toyota production system
  • financial system
  • public and commerce industry
  • accrual basis
  • cash basis
  • merchandising inventory
  • trade discount
  • sales discount
  • memorandum

    • Product design

  • Rapid prototyping
  • Computer aided design
  • New product development
  • Toolkits for User Innovation
  • Configuration systems

    • Manufacturing engineering

  • Production engineering
  • Industrial engineering
  • Computer-aided manufacturing
  • Computer integrated manufacturing
  • Numerically controlled
  • Computer numerically controlled
  • Distributed control systems
  • Fieldbus control systems
  • PLCs
  • Packaging and labeling

    • Assembly systems

  • Assembly line

    • Concepts

  • Capital (economics)
  • Capital investment
  • Consumer
  • Conveyor belt
  • Depreciation
  • Distributor
  • Factory
  • Fixed asset
  • Industrial process
  • Machine tool
  • Manufacturing
  • Mass production
  • Plant
  • Primary industry
  • Procurement
  • Production line
  • Raw materials
  • Retailer
  • Supply chain
  • Tooling up
  • Warehouse
  • Wholesaler
  • Workers

    • Lists

  • Outline of engineering
  • Outline of business management
  • Outline of production
  • Outline of marketing
  • Outline of economics
  • Outline of finance
  • List of international trade topics
  • List of accounting topics
  • List of information technology management topics
  • List of business law topics
  • List of human resource management topics
  • List of business theorists
  • List of economists

    • By country

  • Manufacturing in Australia
  • Manufacturing in Chad
  • Manufacturing in China
  • Manufacturing in Ethiopia
  • Manufacturing in Ghana
  • Manufacturing in Hong Kong
  • Manufacturing in Japan
  • Manufacturing in Mexico
  • Manufacturing in Puerto Rico
  • Manufacturing in Vietnam
  • Manufacturing in the United Kingdom
  • Manufacturing in the United States

    • References

    Outline of manufacturing Wikipedia
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