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Production company
A production company is a business that develops, finances, and manages the creation of films, television programs, or digital media, taking projects from concept through post-production.
Production designer
A production designer is the head of the art department on a film or television production, responsible for the overall visual appearance, including sets, locations, and props.
Production function
A production function is an economic concept mapping a firm's inputs, such as capital and labor, to the maximum output it can produce, with the Cobb–Douglas form dating to 1928.
Production I.G
Production I.G (株式会社プロダクション・アイジー) is a Japanese animation studio founded December 15, 1987 as I.G Tatsunoko by Mitsuhisa Ishikawa and Takayuki Goto, renamed in 1993; maker of Ghost in the Shell, subsidiary of IG Port in Musashino, Tokyo.
Production leveling
Production leveling, known in the Toyota Production System as heijunka, evens out production volume and product mix over time so output meets demand while cutting inventories and lead time.
Production logging
Production logging is the set of downhole measurements, run in a producing or injecting well with the well flowing, that shows which zones contribute flow, where water or gas enters, and where leaks or channels exist.
Production novel
The production novel (производственный роман; also rendered industrial novel) is a genre of fiction centered on workplaces and production processes, flourishing in Soviet literature as a main genre of Socialist Realism.
Production of antibiotics
Production of antibiotics is the industrial manufacture of antibacterial drugs by fermenting producing microorganisms and extracting the active compound, scaled up for penicillin during World War II.
Production of Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars
Production of Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars: linked Marvel Studios films directed by the Russo brothers, with Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom, Doomsday filmed at Pinewood (April-September 2025), released December 18, 2026 and December 17, 2027.
Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame
Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame: the Russo brothers' back-to-back Marvel Studios shoot (2017–2018) at Pinewood Atlanta, 5,119 VFX shots, Thanos effects, and record $2.8 billion box office.
Production of Justice League (film)
Production of Justice League (2017): Zack Snyder's two-part DC team-up filmed at Leavesden Studios; his 2017 departure after a family tragedy, Joss Whedon's reshoots, the $657.9 million theatrical cut, and the #ReleaseTheSnyderCut campaign producing the 242-minute 2021 HBO Max version.
Production of Ponniyin Selvan: I and Ponniyin Selvan: II
Production history of Ponniyin Selvan: I and II, Mani Ratnam's two-part Tamil adaptations of Kalki's 1955 Chola novel, made by Madras Talkies and Lyca Productions for about ₹500 crore, filmed 2019–2021 across Thailand and India despite COVID-19 halts.
Production of The Batman (film)
The production of The Batman covers the making of Matt Reeves's 2022 superhero film starring Robert Pattinson, which began as a Ben Affleck vehicle and was twice shut down by COVID-19.
Production of the James Bond films
Production of the James Bond films: the Eon Productions series begun by Saltzman and Broccoli in 1961 with Dr. No (1962), run by the Broccoli-Wilson family via Danjaq, and since the March 2025 Amazon MGM joint venture led by Amazon with Villeneuve directing Bond 26.
Production of The Lord of the Rings film series
Production of The Lord of the Rings film series (Peter Jackson trilogy, New Line Cinema, New Zealand): three Tolkien films shot back to back from October 1999 to December 2000 on a $300-400 million budget, with Weta effects and a record 11-Oscar Return of the King.
Production part approval process
The production part approval process (PPAP) is an AIAG-defined evidence package by which a supplier demonstrates it can consistently produce parts meeting all design specifications at production rate.
Production planning
Production planning, or production planning and control, is the set of business processes deciding what a manufacturer produces, in what quantities, when, and with which resources.
Production play
The production play (производственная пьеса) is a genre of Soviet drama in which conflict centers on the workplace, widespread after World War II and most popular in the 1970s.
Production sharing agreement
A production sharing agreement (PSA) is an oil contract where a company finances exploration at its own risk and receives a share of production, pioneered by Indonesia in 1966.
Production smoothing
Production smoothing is the practice of producing at a steadier rate than demand, using inventories as a buffer; a standard economic model of inventory behavior since the 1950s.
Production system (computer science)
A production system is a rule-based artificial intelligence method in which condition-action rules, working memory, and an interpreter derive new facts, forming the basis of expert systems.
Production tax credit (United States)
The production tax credit (PTC) is a US federal tax credit per kilowatt-hour of electricity from qualified energy resources, created by the Energy Policy Act of 1992.
Production World Rally Championship
Production World Rally Championship (PWRC), FIA Production car World Rally Championship: companion WRC series for Group N production-based rally cars, a drivers-only title running 1987 to 2012 before replacement by WRC-2 Pro.
Production–possibility frontier
The production–possibility frontier (PPF), also known as the production possibility or transformation curve, graphs the maximum combinations of two goods an economy can produce; its slope measures opportunity cost.
Productive efficiency
Productive efficiency is the condition of producing goods at the lowest attainable cost, so more of one good cannot be made without making less of another.
Productive Safety Net Programme
The Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) is Ethiopia's flagship social safety net, launched in 2005 to provide cash and food transfers to chronically food-insecure rural households.
Productivity
Productivity, or economic productivity, is a measure of economic performance comparing real output with the inputs used to produce it, with labor productivity a key determinant of living standards.
Productivity (linguistics)
Productivity in linguistics, also called morphological productivity, is the capacity of a word-formation rule or construction to generate new, in-principle uncountable forms; it is graded (a cline), measured quantitatively from corpora, and constrained by phonological, semantic, pragmatic and usage factors.
Products and applications of OpenAI
OpenAI's products are AI applications built on its GPT-family language models, centered on the ChatGPT assistant and a usage-based developer API, extended by image, video, and coding products.
Productus
Productus, an extinct spiny brachiopod genus (Productida, Productidae) of the Carboniferous and Permian; a guide fossil indicating Carboniferous-age rocks, with species such as P. semireticulatus and P. cora.