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 edit
Some manufacturing industries edit
History edit
Origins of manufacturing edit
Emergence of the factory edit
Improvement of industrial processes edit
Theories applied to manufacturing edit
Operations of manufacturing edit
Organizational control edit
Manufacturing systems edit
- 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
- Additive manufacturing
- Subtractive manufacturing
- Agile manufacturing
- Fabrication
- Flexible manufacturing
- Just-in-time manufacturing
- Lean manufacturing
- Manufacturing engineering
- Mass customization
- Mass production
- Numerical control
- Prefabrication
- Rapid manufacturing
- Reconfigurable manufacturing system
- High performance positioning system
Product design edit
- Rapid prototyping
- Computer aided design
- New product development
- Toolkits for User Innovation
- Configuration systems
Manufacturing engineering edit
- 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 edit
Modern manufacturing processes edit
Concepts edit
- Capital (economics)
- Capital investment
- Consumer
- Conveyor belt
- Depreciation
- Distributor
- Factory
- Fixed asset
- Industrial process
- Machine tool
- Manufacturing
- Mass production
- Plant
- Primary sector
- Process manufacturing
- Procurement
- Production line
- Raw materials
- Retailer
- Supply chain
- Warehouse
- Wholesaler
- Workers
Lists edit
- 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 human resource management topics
- List of business theorists
- List of economists
- List of largest manufacturing companies by revenue
By country edit
- 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
- Manufacturing in India
See also edit
- 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.