110 Copyright © 2013, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. Chapter 4 TYPOLOGY OF INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION The concrete organisation of production pro- cesses under various forms depends directly on the number of names of products manufactured in the cell concerned, the amount of production manufactured for each type of product and the determination of the manufacture nomenclature. Therefore, all these parameters are related to the typology of industrial production (Courtois, Pillet, & Martin, 2000). The industrial production is the result of the manufacturing process that is performed in an in- dustrial company resulting in obtaining industrial products for the individual or social consumption, I. C. Dima University Valahia of Targoviste, Romania Vladimir Modrák Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia The Management of Basic Production Functions ABSTRACT The production achieved in any industrial company is generically called basic production that needs an appropriate management that is different for every type of mass, serial, or individual production. Every type of production is based on a set of mathematical restrictions that quantitatively and qualitatively quantify that type of production. The fundamentals of the management of any basic production refers to: the production cycle that has a certain structure, and the total duration, the size of which consid- ers both the way that product is made and the graph of moving the benchmarks from one operation to another; the manufacturing batch and, respectively, the optimal manufacturing batch, meaning the time elapsed between the release into production of two consecutive batches. A special case is the produc- tion achieved on a single object and multiple object fow manufacturing lines variably and constantly, continuously and discontinuously, etc. Every fow manufacturing line has a certain cadence, a certain tact, generates certain costs, and has certain characteristics. In the case of control production, it can be organised by taking into account the product position or the nature of the manufacturing process. Every type of production generates costs that are different in terms of the structure and calculation, and the use of the electronic calculation technique is imperatively necessary. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2818-2.ch004