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Definition: production from The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide

The process of making a good or service. Job production, batch production, and flow production are three different ways in which production is organized. Production can be classified by industrial sector: primary production (mining and agriculture), secondary production (manufacturing), and tertiary production (services).


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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
in economics, all those activities that have to do with the creation of commodities, by imparting to raw materials utility, added value, or the ability to satisfy human wants. The farmer who grows wheat, the miller who grinds the wheat into flour, and the baker who transforms flour into bread are examples of producers who, each in his own way, impart utility to a natural or partially processed material. Production was the major thrust of industry until at least the beginning of the 20th cent., when sales and marketing began to be considered equally important in the transference of commodities from producers to consumers. Today, the prevailing mode of production is called mass production, with cottage industry accounting for only a minor portion of the market in most areas of the world. Many historians place the beginnings of mass production around 1800, with Eli Whitney 's firearms factory approximating the labor process of modern industrial production. The mass production method, …
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
in economics, all those activities that have to do with the creation of commodities, by imparting to raw materials utility, added value, or the ability to satisfy human wants. The farmer who grows wheat, the miller who grinds the wheat into flour, and the baker who transforms flour into bread are…
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From Keywords for Media Studies
While production is most often associated (and seen as almost synonymous) with industry and the specific study of media industries, more careful reflection on the scope of the word reveals a significantly more dynamic concept. Despite its utility in delimiting specific industrial sectors, …
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From The American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language
a. The act or process of producing: timber used for the production of lumber and paper. b. The fact or process of being produced: a movie going into production. The creation of value or wealth by producing goods and services. The total output, as of a commodity: increased production at the plant. …
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From The New Penguin Dictionary of Music
Staging of an opera (or other theatre work), an art intimately linked at all periods with design — less intimately, on many occasions, with musical components. The traditions of courtly entertainments, surviving into early opera, required grace, simplicity and eloquence from singers in their…
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The real advantage of animation as an artificially constructed medium is the variety of ways that projects can be realized. This flexibility ensures that traditional and digital processes can co-exist, enabling traditionalists and purists to continue producing work in the field, but opening up the…
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From Critical Terms for Art History
Tom Roberts, Shearing the Rams, 1889–90. National...
A specter haunts the revolutionary imagination: the phantom of production. Everywhere it sustains an unbridled romanticism of productivity. The critical theory of the mode of production does not touch the principle of production. All the concepts it articulates describe only the dialectical and…
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Full text Article Production schedule

From International Encyclopedia of Hospitality Management
A production schedule shows the sequence and quantity of kitchen production for a given day. The schedule must take into account the equipment needed, the time of preparation, the quantities needed, and the staffing required to complete the production based on inventory and the delivery of needed…
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Full text Article Production company

From International Encyclopedia of Hospitality Management
A production company offers a wide variety of technical, creative, and logistical services to meet the event objectives and budget of corporate and association planners. Projects of various size and complexity can range from product launches, training programs, entertainment concerts, theme parties…
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Full text Article mass production

From Encyclopedia of American Business History
The process of producing a large amount of manufactured goods by standardizing parts and production techniques. By doing so, the producer is able to lower the cost of production and therefore lower the cost of the product to the consumer. The method began with the manufacture of muskets for the U.S. …
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From The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Business, Labor, and Economic History
At the beginning of the twentieth century, mass production transformed the way Americans lived and worked. Understandable only as part of the larger socioeconomic system in which it operates, mass production encompasses far more than a set of manufacturing principles and technologies. Thanks to its…
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