Some kind of production missions - refining, decoding, prototyping, producing. May consist hauling elements as well.

However, there is a problem - most of listed procedures usually needs a lots of time. I don't think someone will just wait even a hour to complete one single mission producing something. Reward should be worth.

In other case, there can be some non-using thingies for such missions, similar to mining solibdyte at first step training.

Anyway, DEVs are already said there will be new mission system soon, so maybe we should just wait a little and see if producers will have a niche in it