- Manufacturing and manufacturing systems
- Process improvement
- process
- systems analysis
- quality
- 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
Manufacturing is the transformation of raw materials into finished goods for sale, or intermediate processes involving the production or finishing of semi-manufactures. ...
A factory (previously manufactory) is a large industrial building where goods or products are manufactured. ...
The Imperial units are an irregularly standardized system of units that have been used in the United Kingdom and its former colonies, including the Commonwealth countries. ...
The American system of manufacturing, developed by Eli Whitney in 1799, involves semi-skilled labour using machine tools and templates (or jigs) to make standardized, identical, interchangeable parts, manufactured to a tolerance. ...
Mass production is the production of large amounts of standardised products on production lines. ...
Batch production is a method used to produce or process any product in groups that are called batches, as opposed to a continuous production process, or a one-time production. ...
See also Just-in-time for the compiler system in computing. ...
The Toyota Production System (TPS) (トヨタ生産方式) is the framework and philosophy organizing the manufacturing facilities at Toyota and the interaction of these facilities with the suppliers and customers. ...
Lean Manufacturing is a business initiative to reduce waste in manufactured products. ...
Integrating computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) with computer-aided design systems produces quicker and more efficient manufacturing processes. ...
Mass customization, in marketing, manufacturing, and management, is the use of flexible computer-aided manufacturing systems to produce custom output. ...
Taylorism or Scientific management is the name of the approach to management and Industrial/Organizational Psychology initiated by Frederick Winslow Taylor in his 1911 monograph The Principles of Scientific Management. ...
The expression Fordism goes back to Henry Ford, who significantly improved mass production methods and developed (with several employees) the assembly line method of manufacturing early in the 20th century. ...
Theory of constraints (TOC) is a body of knowledge on the effective management of (mainly business) organizations, as systems. ...
Benchmarking (also best practice benchmarking or process benchmarking) is a process used in management and particularly strategic management, in which companies evaluate various aspects of their business processes in relation to best practice, usually within their own industry. ...
Cost accounting is the process of tracking, recording and analyzing costs associated with the activity of an organization, where cost is defined as required time or resources. Costs are measured in units of currency by convention. ...
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Operations research, operational research, or simply OR, is the use of mathematical models, statistics and algorithms to aid in decision-making. ...
Queueing theory (spelled queuing theory in the United States) is the mathematical study of waiting lines (or queues). ...
Throughput accounting is an alternative to cost accounting based on Standard or Activity Based Costing (ABC) proposed by Eliyahu M. Goldratt. ...
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Industrial engineering is the engineering discipline that concerns the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of integrated systems of people, knowledge, equipment, energy, and material. ...
Reverse engineering (RE) is the process of taking something (a device, an electrical component, a software program, etc. ...
Value engineering is a branch of industrial engineering in which the value of a system’s outputs is optimized. ...
An assembly line is a manufacturing process in which interchangeable parts are added to a product in a sequential manner to create an end product. ...
An industrial robot is officially defined by ISO (Standard 8373:1994, Manipulating Industrial Robots – Vocabulary) as an automatically controlled, reprogrammable, multipurpose manipulator programmable in three or more axes. ...
Integrating computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) with computer-aided design systems produces quicker and more efficient manufacturing processes. ...
Computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM) is manufacturing supported by computers. ...
The production equipment resides in the shop floor of a manufacturing company and its purpose is to produce goods of a wanted quality when provided with production resources of a required quality. ...
This is an article about computer-controlled machines; for an article about the French bicycle manufacturer, see CNC A CNC Turning Center The acronym CNC stands for Computer(ized) Numerical(ly) Control(led), and refers specifically to the computer control of machine tools for the purpose of (repeatedly) manufacturing complex...
A distributed control system (DCS) is part of a manufacturing system. ...
A fieldbus control system is a form of decentralised control which links PLCs via a Controller Area Network (CAN) to control the manufacturing processes at the workshop-floor level. ...
PLC is an initialism for: Palestinian Legislative Council (law-making body of the Palestinian Authority) Parti Libéral du Canada (the term in French for the Liberal Party of Canada) phospholipase C Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth power line communication, including broadband PLC modems Prague Linguistic Circle programmable logic controller product life cycle...
Point of contact between a power transmission belt and its pulley A conveyor belt or belt conveyor consists of two end pulleys, with a continuous loop of material that rotates about them. ...
A machine is any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of tasks. ...
Woodworking machinery is any machine that is intended to convert wood into objects for human use. ...
Process (lat. ...
Systems analysis is the science dealing with analysis of complex, large scale systems and the interactions within those systems. ...
Quality refers to the inherent or distinctive characteristics or properties of a person, object, process or other thing. ...
In engineering and manufacturing, quality control and quality engineering are involved in developing systems to ensure products or services are designed and produced to meet or exceed customer requirements. ...
Six Sigma is a quality management program to achieve six sigma levels of quality. ...
Total Quality Management or TQM is a management strategy to embed awareness of quality in all organizational processes. ...
ISO 9000 specifies requirements for a Quality Management System overseeing the production of a product or service. ...
Production, in microeconomics is simply the conversion of inputs into outputs. ...
See also: record producer. ...
In microeconomics, a production function expresses the relationship between an organizations inputs and its outputs. ...
In economics, the production possibility frontier (the PPF, also called the production possibilities curve (PPC) or the “transformation curve”) is a graph that depicts the trade-off between any two items produced. ...
Logistics is the art and science of managing and controlling the flow of goods, energy, information and other resources. ...
A supply chain is a network of facilities and distribution options that performs the functions of procurement of materials; transformation of these material into intermediate and finished products; and distribution of these finished products to customers. ...
Supply chain management (SCM) deals with the planning and execution issues involved in managing a supply chain. ...
Look up Trade in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Trade centers on the exchange of goods and/or services. ...
In business management, inventory consists of a list of goods and materials held available in stock. ...
In business management, inventory consists of a list of goods and materials held available in stock. ...
Economic Order Quantity (also known as the Wilson EOQ Model or simply the EOQ Model) is a model that defines the optimal quantity to order that minimizes total variable costs required to order and hold inventory. ...
In business management, inventory consists of a list of goods and materials held available in stock. ...
See also Just-in-time for the compiler system in computing. ...
Rapid prototyping, also known as solid freeform fabrication, is the automatic construction of physical objects with 3D printers, stereolithography machines or selective laser sintering systems. ...
Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of a wide range of computer-based tools that assist engineers and architects in their design activities. ...
New Product Development is a business and engineering term which describes the complete process of bringing a new product to market. ...
The phrase research and development (also R and D or R&D) has a special commercial significance apart from its conventional coupling of research and technological development. ...
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