Outline of manufacturing

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

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[]

Industrial Revolution

• Factory system

Emergence of the factory[]

Factory

Improvement of industrial processes[]

Industrial process

Theories applied to manufacturing[]

• Taylorism
• Fordism
• Scientific management

Operations of manufacturing[]

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
• Accrual basis
• Trade 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

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 sector
• Procurement
• Production line
• Raw materials
• Retailer
• Supply chain
• 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 business law 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

See also[]

• Business - for the economics and commercial management of a manufacturing company.
• Commercial law - for the law as applied to businesses.
• Industry classification - 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.