List of production topics - Definition and Overview

• Manufacturing and manufacturing systems
  • manufacturing
  • factory
  • Craft system
  • English system of manufacturing
  • American system of manufacturing
  • Mass production
  • Batch production
  • Just in time manufacturing
  • Toyota Production System
  • Lean manufacturing
  • Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM)
  • Mass customization

• Theories of production
  • Taylorism
  • Fordism
  • Theory of constraints

• Productivity
  • Productivity
  • benchmarking
  • cost accounting
  • experience curve effects (learning curve effects)
  • lot size and run length
  • operations research
  • scheduling and queuing theory
  • throughput accounting
  • time and motion study

• Production engineering
  • Industrial and manufacturing engineering
  • reverse engineering
  • value engineering

• Production technology
  • Assembly line
  • Industrial robot
  • Computer-aided manufacturing
  • Computer integrated manufacturing
  • Production equipment control
  • Computer numerically controlled
  • Distributed Control System
  • Fieldbus control system
  • Programmable logic controllers
  • Conveyor belt

• Machinery
  • Woodworking machinery
  • Metalworking machinery
  • Textile machinery
  • Equipment manufacturer

• Process improvement
  • process
  • systems analysis
  • quality
    • Quality control
    • Six Sigma
    • Total Quality Management
  • Certification Processes and Awards
    • ISO 9000
    • Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award (US)
    • Deming Prize (Japan)
    • Joseph M. Juran Medal (US)
    • Japan Quality Control Medal (Japan)

• The economics of production
  • Production theory basics
  • Production, costs, and pricing
  • Production function
  • Production possibility frontier

• Logistics
  • supply chain
  • supply chain management
  • Procurement or purchasing
  • Inventory
    • Inventory management
    • economic order quantity
    • inventory
    • just in time

• Product design
  • Rapid prototyping
  • Computer-aided design (CAD)
  • New product development
  • research and development

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