factory output
What plants produce
Factory output is the total amount of goods produced by a factory or manufacturing sector over a given period.
Economists track factory output as a key indicator of industrial health and economic activity: Factory output rose 3% in the third quarter.
The term often appears in news about manufacturing trends and economic forecasts.
- throughputProcessing rate over time
- assembly lineSequential workstation manufacturing
- assembly workerFactory production employee
- cycle timeDuration of one repetition
- partPiece of whole
units per hour · capacity utilization · yield · tonnage · automation · energy consumption · waste management · batch · production · machining · operational costs · trade balance · overtime · smokestacks · conveyor · fabrication · pallets · shipping dock
- American manufacturingassembly plants, steel mills, textile mills, garment factories, chemical plants
- manufacturingfactories, assembly plants, production line, assembly line, plant
- wartime economywar bonds, war loans, war production, war effort, war factories
- Soviet Economycentral planning, command economy, five-year plans, planned economy, state ownership
- surplus termssurplus, excess, glut, oversupply, overflow
- Soviet Industrycentral planning, five-year plans, planned economy, state enterprises, production quotas
factory outputraw materials
Unprocessed production inputs
inputs · feedstock · components · natural resources · source materials
factory outputintake
Amount received or consumed
inflow · supply · procurement · imports · deliveries
factory outputfactory shutdown
Cessation of industrial production
plant closure · downtime · factory closure · underproduction · consumption