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Outline of production

Overview of and topical guide to production From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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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.[1] 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

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.[3]
      • 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.[4]
    • 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

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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

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Service provision

Logistics

Process improvement

See also

References

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