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Production standard

Quality control

Overhead costs

Automation

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Natural resources (land)

Manufacturing

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National Association of Manufacturers

Human resources (labor)

OSHA

Assembly line

Just in time (lean) manufacturing

Inventory

The process of turning raw materials into finished goods.

A complete list of items such as property, goods in stock, or the contents of building.

The people involved in creating or producing a good or service.

A unit of measurement that indicates the normal level of performance for an industrial operation and that is expressible as time per unit or units per hour or day.

Manufacturing process in which parts are added to a product in a sequential manner using optimally planned logistics to create a finished product much faster than with handcrafting-type methods.

The willingness of a person or group to take a risk to combine other factors of production to produce or improve a good or service.

The use of largely automatic equipment in a system of manufacturing or other production process.

A system of maintaining standards in manufactured products by testing a sample of the output against the specification.

Government organization that develops and enforces workplace safety rules and regulations.

Produced goods that are used in the production of other goods.

Organization that advocates for and supports manufacturers of all sizes at the national level.

The general, fixed cost of running a business, such as rent, lighting, and heating expense, which cannot be charged or attributed to a specific product or part of the work operation.

Materials (sometimes referred to as raw materials) that are found naturally in the environment and do not need to be created.

Manufacturing strategy/infrastructure that allows materials to be delivered to production plants just before they are needed, usually in response to consumer demand.