Outline of manufacturing
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to manufacturing:
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Factory in 1958, photo by Paolo Monti
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.
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
Emergence of the factory
Improvement of industrial processes
Industrial process
Theories applied to manufacturing
Operations of manufacturing
Organizational control
- Management
- Total Quality Management
- Quality control
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
Modern manufacturing processes
Taxonomy of manufacturing processes
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
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See also
- Business - for the economics and commercial management of a manufacturing company.
- Commercial law - for the law as applied to businesses.
- Industry - for the classification of manufacturers.
- Management and General manager - for the general management of a business.
- Political economy - for the political impact of the development of industry.
- Product lifecycle management - for the role of computer technology in manufacturing.
- Production - for the economic decisions made in manufacturing.
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