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Outline of production

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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.Kotler, P., Armstrong, G., Brown, L., and Adam, S. (2006) Marketing, 7th Ed. Pearson Education Australia/Prentice Hall. 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:

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Types

  • Industry – production of an economic good or service within an economy.{{cite web | url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/industry | title=Industry Definition & Meaning }} 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 (that is, the focus of production) is a natural resource.
  • Agriculture   (outline) – cultivation of animals, plants, fungi, and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life.{{cite book|author=International Labour Office|title=Safety and health in agriculture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GtBa6XIW_aQC&pg=PA77|access-date=13 September 2010|year=1999|publisher=International Labour Organization|isbn=978-92-2-111517-5|pages=77–}}
  • 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   (outline) – creating, managing, using, and conserving forests and associated resources in a sustainable manner to meet desired goals, needs, and values for human benefit."Forestry." SAF Dictionary of Forestry. The Society of American Foresters, 1998. Helms, John A. <{{cite web |url=http://dictionaryofforestry.org/dict/term/forestry |title=SAFnet Dictionary | Definition for [forestry] |access-date=2014-03-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019122343/http://dictionaryofforestry.org/dict/term/forestry |archive-date=2013-10-19 }}>
  • 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   (outline) – extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, from an ore body, vein or (coal) seam.
  • Extraction of petroleum – process by which usable petroleum (oil) 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.{{cite news

|author= Tor Selstad

|title= The rise of the quaternary sector. The regional dimension of knowledge-based services in Norway, 1970-1985

|publisher= informaworld

|quote= ... knowledge-based services ...

|date= 1990

}}{{cite news

|author= Peter Busch

|title= Tacit Knowledge in Organizational Learning

|publisher= Tacit Knowledge in Organizational Learning

|quote= see page .. The quaternary sector of industry is the sector of industry that involves the intellectual services. That is research, development, and information.

|date= 1967

|isbn= 9781599045030

|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=KGd5hL2-rvQC&q=%22quaternary+sector%22&pg=PT355

|access-date= 2010-06-17

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Goals

= Productivity =

History

= Theories of production =

Economics

Manufacturing

= Product engineering =

== Product design ==

= Production technology =

== Machinery ==

== Machine set-up ==

== Lot size and run length ==

Service provision

Logistics

Process improvement

See also

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References

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External links

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; Productivity

  • [http://www.bls.gov/lpc/ Productivity and Costs – Bureau of Labor Statistics] United States Department of Labor: contains international comparisons of productivity rates, historical and present
  • [http://www.oecd.org/department/0,3355,en_2649_29964795_1_1_1_1_1,00.html Productivity Statistics - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development]
  • [http://www.federalreserve.gov/BOARDDOCS/SPEECHES/1996/19961016.htm Greenspan Speech]
  • [http://stats.oecd.org/WBOS/Index.aspx?DatasetCode=LEVEL OECD estimates of labour productivity levels]
  • [http://www.productivityenhancement.com Productivity Enhancement Through Business Automation]
  • [http://productivity-science.com Productivity Science - source for personal and business productivity information]
  • [https://www.slideshare.net/zinnov/productivity-framework-4328654 Productivity Assessment Framework from Zinnov LLC]

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