Flashcards: Manufacturing

Operations management is an area of management concerned with designing and controlling the process of production and redesigning business operations in the production of goods or services.

State socialism is a classification for any socialist political and economic perspective advocating state ownership of the means of production either as a temporary measure in the transition from capitalism to socialism, or as characteristic of socialism itself.

The theory of state monopoly capitalism was initially a Marxist doctrine popularised after World War II.

Military production during World War II includes the arms, ammunitions, natural resources, personnel and financing which were mobilized for the war.

A factory (previously manufactory) or manufacturing plant is an industrial site, usually consisting of buildings and machinery, or more commonly a complex having several buildings, where workers manufacture goods or operate machines processing one product into another.

The Toyota Production System (TPS) is an integrated socio-technical system, developed by Toyota, that comprises its management philosophy and practices.

A warehouse is a commercial building for storage of goods.

Sewing is the craft of fastening or attaching objects using stitches made with a needle and thread.

Manufacturing process management (MPM) is a collection of technologies and methods used to define how products are to be manufactured.

The division of labour is the separation of tasks in any economic system so that participants may specialize.

Just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing, also known as just-in-time production or the Toyota production system (TPS), is a methodology aimed primarily at reducing flow times within production system as well as response times from suppliers and to customers.

Redistribution of income and redistribution of wealth are respectively the transfer of income and of wealth (including physical property) from some individuals to others by means of a social mechanism such as taxation, charity, welfare, public services, land reform, monetary policies, confiscation, divorce or tort law.

In geography and ecology, anthropization is the conversion of open spaces, landscapes, and natural environments by human action.

A calender is a series of hard pressure rollers used to form or smooth a sheet of material such as paper or plastic film.

B2MML or Business To Manufacturing Markup Language is an XML implementation of the ANSI/ISA-95 family of standards (ISA-95), known internationally as IEC/ISO 62264.

Homeworkers or home workers are defined by the International Labour Organization as people working from their homes or from other premises of their choosing other than the workplace, for payment, which results of a product or service specified by the employer.

The planning horizon is the amount of time an organization will look into the future when preparing a strategic plan.

In economics, an input–output model is a quantitative economic technique that represents the interdependencies between different branches of a national economy or different regional economies.

Surplus product (German: Mehrprodukt) is an economic concept explicitly theorised by Karl Marx in his critique of political economy.

This article is about the important technologies that have historically increased productivity.

Productivity is an average measure of the efficiency of production.

A fixture is a work-holding or support device used in the manufacturing industry.

The sexual division of labour (SDL) is the delegation of different tasks between males and females.

A by-product is a secondary product derived from a manufacturing process or chemical reaction.

Continuous-flow manufacturing, or Repetitive-Flow Manufacturing, is an approach to discrete manufacturing that contrasts with batch production.

Demand Management is a planning methodology used to forecast [predict], plan for and manage the demand for products and services.

Inventory control or stock control can be broadly defined as "the activity of checking a shop’s stock".

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.