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Manufacturing

Manufacturing is the transformation of raw materials into finished goods for sale, or intermediate processes involving the production or finishing of semi-manufactures. It is a large branch of industry and of secondary production. Some industries, like semiconductor and steel manufactureres use the term fabrication.

Although handicraft production has been with us for many millennia, modern-style manufacturing is generally regarded as beginning around 1780 with the BritishIndustrial Revolution, spreading thereafter to Continental Europe and North America, and subsequently around the world.

While it remains a huge part of the modern world economy perhaps a quarter of aggregate world production of goods and services many of the world's wealthier nations devote an ever smaller proportion of their workforce to manufacturing activity owing to relocation of enterprises to lower-wage countries and the rising proportion of economic activity devoted to service activity.

Contents

• 1 Manufacturing Topics
  • 1.1 Taxonomy of manufacturing processes
  • 1.2 Manufacturing Systems
  • 1.3 Theories
  • 1.4 Control
  • 1.5 Manufacturing Engineering
  • 1.6 Assembly Systems
  • 1.7 Design
  • 1.8 Others
  • 1.9 Lists of related topics

  Manufacturing Topics

  Taxonomy of manufacturing processes

  Taxonomy of manufacturing processes

  Manufacturing Systems

  • Craft 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

  • Industrial and 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

  Lists of related topics

  • list of engineering topics
  • list of management topics
  • list of production topics
  • list of marketing topics
  • list of economics topics
  • list of international trade topics
  • list of finance topics
  • list of accounting topics
  • list of information technology management topics
  • list of business law topics
  • list of human resource management topics
  • list of business theorists
  • list of economists
  • list of corporate leaders

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