Manufacturing is the transformation of raw materials into finished goods for even even sale, or medium processes involving a production or finishing of semi-manufactures. These are the big branch of industry and of secondary production. A select few industries, rather semiconductor and steel manufacturers use a term fabrication.

Although handicraft production hwhen been with usa for numbers of millennia, modern-style manufacturing is usually regarded as beginning around 1780 with the British Industrial Revolution, spreading thereafter to Continental Europe and North America, and after in the area of the world.

When it remains the immense section of the present times economy—perhaps a quarter of total globe production of goods and services—many of the world's loaded nations devote an ever smaller proportion of their workforce to manufacturing activity owing to relocation of enterprises to lower-wage countries and a rising proportion of economic activity devoted to service activity.

Manufacturing topics

Taxonomy of manufacturing processes

Taxonomy of manufacturing processes (separate page)

Manufacturing systems

Craft or even Guild system English system of manufacturing American System of manufacturing Soviet collectivism in manufacturing Mass production Just In Time manufacturing Lean manufacturing Flexible manufacturing Mass customization Agile manufacturing Rapid manufacturing Prefabrication

Theories

Taylorism Fordism Scientific management

Control

Management List of management topics Quality control

Manufacturing engineering

Production Engineering Industrial Engineering Manufacturing Engineering Manufacturing Systems Engineering Computer-aided manufacturing Computer integrated manufacturing Numerically controlled Computer numerically controlled Distributed Control Systems Fieldbus control systems Programmable logic controllers

Assembly systems

Assembly line Industrial robot

Design

Rapid prototyping Computer aided design New product development

Others

Primary industry Factory Distributor Warehouse Wholesaler Retailer Consumer

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