manufacturing

manufacturing
See manufacturable.

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Any industry that makes products from raw materials by the use of manual labour or machines and that is usually carried out systematically with a division of labour.

In a more limited sense, manufacturing is the fabrication or assembly of components into finished products on a fairly large scale. Among the most important manufacturing industries are those that produce aircraft, automobiles, chemicals, clothing, computers, consumer electronics, electrical equipment, furniture, heavy machinery, refined petroleum products, ships, steel, and tools. See also factory; mass production.

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      any industry that makes products from raw materials by the use of manual labour or machinery and that is usually carried out systematically with a division of labour. (See industry.) In a more limited sense, manufacturing denotes the fabrication or assembly of components into finished products on a fairly large scale. Among the most important manufacturing industries are those that produce aircraft, automobiles, chemicals, clothing, computers, consumer electronics, electrical equipment, furniture, heavy machinery, refined petroleum products, ships, steel, and tools and dies.

      Manufacturing is treated in a number of articles. For treatment of major manufacturing industries, see automotive industry; aerospace industry; ship construction; clothing and footwear industry; floor coverings (floor covering); furniture industry; chemical industry; soap and detergent; dye; pharmaceutical industry; explosive; elastomer; plastic; man-made fibre (fibre, man-made); surface coating; adhesive; papermaking; building construction; electronics; food preservation; industrial ceramics; industrial glass; industrial polymers, major; mineral deposit; textile; printing. For treatment of manufacturing methods, processes, and organization, see automation; production system; industrial relations. The utilization of energy in manufacturing is treated in energy conversion. For the application of measurement and control in industrial processes, see analysis; drafting. See also engineering; technology, history of.

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