# 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
* Inflatable
* Pharmaceutical industry
* Pulp and paper industry
* Toy industry

## History

* Handicraft

### Origins of manufacturing

Industrial Revolution

### Emergence of the factory

Factory
* History of the factory
* Factory system

### Improvement of industrial processes

* Industrial process
* Casting

## 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
* 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

* 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
Manufacturing process management

## Concepts

* Capital (economics)
* Capital investment
* Consumer
* Conveyor belt
* Depreciation
* Distributor
* Factory
* Fixed asset
* Industrial process
* Machine tool
* Manufacturing
** List of manufacturing processes
* Mass production
* Plant
* Primary sector
* Process manufacturing
* Procurement
* Production line
* Raw materials
* Retailer
* Supply chain
* Warehouse
* Wholesaler

## 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 human resource management topics
* List of business theorists
* List of economists
* List of largest manufacturing companies by revenue

## 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
* Manufacturing in India