Outline of production

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to production:
Production - act of creating 'use' value or 'utility' that can satisfy a want or need. The act may or may not include factors of production other than labor. Any effort directed toward the realization of a desired product or service is a "productive" effort and the performance of such act is production.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to production:

Types

Industry - production of an economic good or service within an economy. Industry is divided into four sectors, or types of production; they are:

Primary sector

Primary sector - this involves the extraction of resources directly from the Earth, this includes agricultural and resource extraction industries. In these industries, the product is a natural resource.
* Agriculture - cultivation of animals, plants, fungi, and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life.
** Animal husbandry - agricultural practice of breeding and raising livestock.
** Farming - cultivating land for the purpose of agricultural production.
** Aquaculture - the farming of fish, crustaceans, molluscs, aquatic plants, algae, and other aquatic organisms.
** Forestry - creating, managing, using, and conserving forests and associated resources in a sustainable manner to meet desired goals, needs, and values for human benefit.
* Resource extraction -
** Fishing - activity of catching or harvesting fish and other aquatic animals such as molluscs, cephalopods, crustaceans, and echinoderms.
** Logging - harvesting timber, including cutting, skidding, on-site processing, and loading trees or logs onto trucks or skeleton cars.
** Mining - extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, from an ore body, vein or seam.
** Extraction of petroleum - process by which usable petroleum is extracted and removed from the earth.
** Extraction of natural gas - Natural gas is commercially extracted from oil fields and natural gas fields.
** Water industry - provides drinking water to residential, commercial, and industrial sectors of the economy.

Secondary sector

Secondary sector - involves the processing of raw materials from primary industries, and includes the industries that produce a finished, tangible product.
* Construction - process that consists of the building or assembling of infrastructure, including buildings, roads, dams, etc.
* Manufacturing - process which involves tools and labor to produce goods for use or sale. Ranges from handicraft to high tech industrial production.

Tertiary sector

Tertiary sector - This group is involved in the provision of services. They include teachers, managers and other service providers.

Quaternary sector

Quaternary sector - the part of the economy that produces knowledge-based services.
* Information industry -
** Information generation and sharing -
** Information technology -
* Consulting services -
* Education -
* Research and development -
* Financial planning services -

Goals

Productivity

History

Theories of production

Economics

Manufacturing

Product engineering

Product design

Production technology

Machinery

Machinery
* Production line
* Assembly line
* Conveyor belt
* Woodworking machinery
* Metalworking machinery
* Textile machinery
* Equipment manufacturer

Machine set-up

Changeover
Single-Minute Exchange of Die
Sequence-dependent setup

Lot size and run length

Service provision

Logistics

Process improvement

Systems analysis
* Process modeling
* Process optimization
Quality
* Quality control
* Six Sigma
* Quality Management
Certification Processes and Awards
* ISO 9000
* Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award
* Canada Awards for Excellence (National Quality Institute)
* Deming Prize
* Joseph M. Juran Medal
* Japan Quality Control Medal