Manufacturing
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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.
Although handicraft production has been with us for many millennia, modern-style manufacturing is generally regarded as beginning around 1780 with the British Industrial 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.
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Manufacturing Topics
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
Theories
Control
Manufacturing Engineering
- Industrial and manufacturing engineering
- Computer-aided manufacturing
- Computer integrated manufacturing
- Numerically controlled
- Computer numerically controlled
- Fieldbus control systems
- Programmable logic controllers
Assembly Systems
Design
Others
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
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Manufacturing" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
