List of basic manufacturing topics
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Manufacturing is the application of tools and a processing medium to the transformation of raw materials into finished goods for sale. This effort includes all intermediate processes required for the production and integration of a product's components. Some industries, like semiconductor and steel manufacturers use the term fabrication instead. Basic topics in manufacturing include:
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[edit] Nature of manufacturing
- Main article: Manufacturing
[edit] 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
[edit] History of manufacturing
[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
- Craft or Guild system
- English system of manufacturing
- American System of manufacturing
- Soviet collectivism in manufacturing
- Mass production
- Just In Time manufacturing
- Lean manufacturing
- Flexible manufacturing
- Mass customization
- Agile manufacturing
- Rapid manufacturing
- Prefabrication
[edit] Product design
- Rapid prototyping
- Computer aided design
- New product development
- Toolkits for User Innovation
- Configuration systems
[edit] Manufacturing engineering
- Production engineering
- Industrial engineering
- Computer-aided manufacturing
- Computer integrated manufacturing
- Numerically controlled
- Computer numerically controlled
- Distributed control systems
- Fieldbus control systems
- Programmable logic controllers
[edit] Assembly systems
[edit] Modern manufacturing processes
[edit] Basic manufacturing concepts
- Capital
- Capital investment
- Consumer
- Conveyor belt
- Depreciation
- Distributor
- Factory
- Fixed asset
- Industrial process
- Machine tool
- Mass production
- Plant
- Primary industry
- Procurement
- Production
- Production line
- Raw materials
- Retailer
- Supply chain
- Tooling up
- Warehouse
- Wholesaler
- Workers
[edit] Scholars in manufacturing
[edit] Leaders in manufacturing
[edit] Manufacturing-related lists
- Main article: List of manufacturing topics
- list of engineering topics
- list of management topics
- list of production topics
- list of marketing topics
- list of economics topics
- list of international trade topics
- list of finance 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
- list of corporate leaders
[edit] 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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- http://www.coolstuffbeingmade.com - A collection of videos of how things are made in America
- http://lfm.mit.edu - The Leaders for Manufacturing program at MIT combines graduate education in engineering and management. LFM's goal is to teach guiding principles for world-class manufacturing and operations.
- http://www.unido.org - United Nations Industrial Development Organization.
- The Six Sigma Zone
- http://manufacturing.stanford.edu - A site with videos showing the manufacturing process for many everyday things
