History and development of manufacturing

    * In its earliest form, manufacturing was usually carried out by a single skilled artisan with assistants. Training was by apprenticeship. In much of the pre-industrial world the guild system protected the privileges and trade secrets of urban artisans.
    * Before the Industrial Revolution, most manufacturing occurred in rural areas, where household-based manufacturing served as a supplemental subsistence strategy to agriculture (and continues to do so in places). Entrepreneurs organized a number of manufacturing households into a single enterprise through the putting-out system.
    * Toil manufacturing is an arrangement whereby a first firm with specialized equipment processes raw materials or semi-finished goods for a second firm.

Manufacturing systems: The changing methods of manufacturing

    * Craft or Guild system
    * Putting-out system
    * English system of manufacturing
    * American system of manufacturing
    * Soviet collectivism in manufacturing
    * Mass production
    * Just In Time manufacturing
    * Lean manufacturing
    * Flexible manufacturing
    * Mass customization
    * Agile manufacturing
    * Rapid manufacturing
    * Prefabrication
    * Packaging and labeling
    * Ownership
    * Fabrication
    * Publication