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Industry is the production of an economic good or service within an economy.[1]
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Industrial sectors [link]
Industry is often classified into three sectors: primary or extractive, secondary or manufacturing, and tertiary or services. Some authors add quaternary (knowledge) or even quinary (culture and research) sectors.
Industries can be classified on the basis of raw materials, size and ownership.
- Raw Materials: Industries may be agriculture based, Marine based, Mineral based, Forest based.
- Size: It refers to the amount of capital invested, number of people employed and the volume of production.
- Ownership: Industries can be classified into private sector, state owned or public sector, joint sector and co-operative sector
Industry in the sense of manufacturing became a key sector of production and labour in European and North American countries during the Industrial Revolution, which upset previous mercantile and feudal economies through many successive rapid advances in technology, such as the steel and coal production. It is aided by technological advances, and has continued to develop into new types and sectors to this day. Industrial countries then assumed a capitalist economic policy. Railroads and steam-powered ships began speedily establishing links with previously unreachable world markets, enabling private companies to develop to then-unheard of size and wealth. Following the Industrial Revolution, perhaps a third of the world's economic output is derived from manufacturing industries—more than agriculture's share.
Many developed countries and many developing/semi-developed countries (People's Republic of China, India etc.) depend significantly on industry. Industries, the countries they reside in, and the economies of those countries are interlinked in a complex web of interdependence.
Industry is divided into four sectors. They are:
| Sector | Definition |
|---|---|
| Primary | This involves the extraction of resources directly from the Earth, this includes farming, mining and logging. They do not process the products at all. They send it off to factories to make a profit. |
| Secondary | This group is involved in the processing products from primary industries. This includes all factories—those that refine metals, produce furniture, or pack farm products such as meat. |
| Tertiary | This group is involved in the provision of services. They include teachers, managers and other service providers. |
| Quaternary | This group is involved in the research of science and technology. They include scientists. |
| Quinary Sector | Some consider there to be a branch of the quaternary sector called the quinary sector, which includes the highest levels of decision making in a society or economy. This sector would include the top executives or officials in such fields as government, science, universities, nonprofit, healthcare, culture, and the media. |
An Australian source relates that the quinary sector in Australia refers to domestic activities such as those performed by stay-at-home parents or homemakers. These activities are typically not measured by monetary amounts but it is important to recognize these activities in contribution to the economy.
As a country develops people move away from the primary sector to secondary and then to tertiary.
There are many other different kinds of industries, and often organized into different classes or sectors by a variety of industrial classifications.
Industry classification systems used by the government[which?] commonly divide industry into three sectors: agriculture, manufacturing, and services. The primary sector of industry is agriculture, mining and raw material extraction. The secondary sector of industry is manufacturing. The tertiary sector of industry is service production. Sometimes, one talks about a quaternary sector of industry, consisting of intellectual services such as research and development (R&D).
Market-based classification systems such as the Global Industry Classification Standard and the Industry Classification Benchmark are used in finance and market research. These classification systems commonly divide industries according to similar functions and markets and identify businesses producing related products.
Industries can also be identified by product: chemical industry, petroleum industry, automotive industry, electronic industry, meatpacking industry, hospitality industry, food industry, fish industry, software industry, paper industry, entertainment industry, semiconductor industry, cultural industry, poverty industry
- labor-intensive industry - capital-intensive industry
- light industry - heavy industry
Industrial development [link]
The industrial revolution led to the development of factories for large-scale production, with consequent changes in society. Originally the factories were steam-powered, but later transitioned to electricity once an electrical grid was developed. The mechanized assembly line was introduced to assemble parts in a repeatable fashion, with individual workers performing specific steps during the process. This led to significant increases in efficiency, lowering the cost of the end process. Later automation was increasingly used to replace human operators. This process has accelerated with the development of the computer and the robot.
Declining industries [link]
Historically certain manufacturing industries have gone into a decline due to various economic factors, including the development of replacement technology or the loss of competitive advantage. An example of the former is the decline in carriage manufacturing when the automobile was mass-produced.
A recent trend has been the migration of prosperous, industrialized nations toward a post-industrial society. This is manifested by an increase in the service sector at the expense of manufacturing, and the development of an information-based economy, the so-called informational revolution. In a post-industrial society, manufacturing is relocated to economically more favourable locations through a process of off-shoring.
The major difficulty for people looking to measure manufacturing industries outputs and economic effect is finding a measurement which is stable historically. Traditionally, success has been measured in the number of jobs created. The lowering of employee numbers in the manufacturing sector has been assumed to be caused by a decline in the competitiveness of the sector although much has been caused by the introduction of the lean manufacturing process. Eventually, this will lead to competing product lines being managed by one of two people, as is already the case in the cigarette manufacturing industry.
Related to this change is the upgrading of the quality of the product being manufactured. While it is easy to produce a low tech, low skill product, the ability to manufacture high quality products is limited to companies with a high skilled staff.
Society [link]
An industrial society can be defined in many ways. Today, industry is an important part of most societies and nations. A government must have some kind of industrial policy, regulating industrial placement, industrial pollution, financing and industrial labor.
Industrial labour [link]
In an industrial society, industry employs a major part of the population. This occurs typically in the manufacturing sector. A labor union is an organization of workers who have banded together to achieve common goals in key areas such as wages, hours, and working conditions. The trade union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members (rank and file members) and negotiates labor contracts with employers. This movement first rose among industrial workers.
War [link]
The industrial revolution changed warfare, with mass-produced weaponry and supplies, machine-powered transportation, mobilization, the total war concept and weapons of mass destruction. Early instances of industrial warfare were the Crimean War and the American Civil War, but its full potential showed during the world wars. See also military-industrial complex, arms industry, military industry and modern warfare.
ISIC [link]
ISIC (Rev.4) stands for International Standard Industrial Classification of all economic activities, the most complete and systematic industrial classification made by United Nations Statistics Division.
ISIC is a standard classification of economic activities arranged so that entities can be classified according to the activity they carry out. The categories of ISIC at the most detailed level (classes) are delineated according to what is, in most countries, the customary combination of activities described in statistical units, and considers the relative importance of the activities included in these classes.
While ISIC Rev.4 continues to use criteria such as input, output and use of the products produced, more emphasis has been given to the character of the production process in defining and delineating ISIC classes.
List of countries by industrial output [link]
| Rank | Country | Output in billions of US$ |
Composition of GDP (%) |
% of Global Industry |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | World | 21,664.144 | 31.1% | 100.0% |
| — |  European Union |
4,394.423 | 25.0% | 20.3% |
| 1 |  China |
3,415.533 | 46.8% | 15.8% |
| 2 |  United States |
3,335.780 | 22.1% | 15.4% |
| 3 |  Japan |
1,408.673 | 24.0% | 6.5% |
| 4 |  Germany |
1,005.146 | 28.1% | 4.6% |
| 5 |  Russia |
684.648 | 37.0% | 3.2% |
| 6 |  Brazil |
670.592 | 26.9% | 3.1% |
| 7 |  Italy |
554.080 | 25.2% | 2.6% |
| 8 |  United Kingdom |
522.195 | 21.6% | 2.4% |
| 9 |  France |
513.620 | 18.5% | 2.4% |
| 10 |  Canada |
476.602 | 27.1% | 2.2% |
| 11 |  India |
440.826 | 26.3% | 2.0% |
| 12 |  South Korea |
437.569 | 39.2% | 2.0% |
| 13 |  Saudi Arabia |
390.454 | 67.6% | 1.8% |
| 14 |  Indonesia |
389.013 | 46.0% | 1.8% |
| 15 |  Spain |
386.820 | 25.8% | 1.8% |
| 16 |  Australia |
380.985 | 25.6% | 1.8% |
| 17 |  Mexico |
378.769 | 32.8% | 1.7% |
| 18 |  United Arab Emirates |
213.921 | 59.4% | 1.0% |
| 19 |  Turkey |
209.306 | 26.9% | 1.0% |
| 20 |  Netherlands |
203.385 | 24.2% | 0.9% |
| - | Remaining Countries | 5,646.227 | 26.1% |
See also [link]
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Look up industry in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Industries |
- North American Industry Classification System
- North American Product Classification System
- Standard Industrial Classification
- Industry information
References [link]
https://wn.com/Industry
Industrie Clothing
Industrie Clothing Pty Ltd is an Australian fashion company producing men's clothing founded in 1999.
History
Originally stocked exclusively at Myer, Industrie Clothing opened its first freestanding retail store in 2001.
In 2003, Industrie further expanded into selected David Jones stores and today wholesales exclusively to David Jones.
In 2008, Industrie Clothing launched its kidswear line, Indie Kids by Industrie, for boys and girls aged 0 – 14.
In 2010, Industrie opened its Australian online store, followed by the Indie Kids by Industrie online store in 2011. Today, Industrie operates three international online stores, catering to their customers in New Zealand, US and UK/Europe.
In late 2013, Industrie Clothing opened its London flagship store and in early 2014, opened its flagship New Zealand store in Auckland.
Brief History
Industry 4.0
Industry 4.0, Industrie 4.0 or the fourth industrial revolution, is a collective term embracing a number of contemporary automation, data exchange and manufacturing technologies. It had been defined as 'a collective term for technologies and concepts of value chain organization' which draws together Cyber-Physical Systems, the Internet of Things and the Internet of Services.
Industry 4.0 facilitates the vision and execution of a "Smart Factory". Within the modular structured Smart Factories of Industry 4.0, cyber-physical systems monitor physical processes, create a virtual copy of the physical world and make decentralized decisions. Over the Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems communicate and cooperate with each other and with humans in real time, and via the Internet of Services, both internal and cross-organizational services are offered and utilized by participants of the value chain.
Name
The term "Industrie 4.0" originates from a project in the high-tech strategy of the German government, which promotes the computerization of manufacturing. The first industrial revolution mobilised the mechanization of production using water and steam power. The second industrial revolution then introduced mass production with the help of electric power, followed by the digital revolution and the use of electronics and IT to further automate production.
