Manufacturing

: This is a specific reference to the process of Manufacturing. For the wider business elements of Manufacturing see the definitions in the Manufacturing (overview).

Manufacturing is the transformation of raw materials into product (business) for sale, or intermediate processes involving the production or finishing of Bill of Materials. It is a large branch of industry and of Secondary sector of industry. Some industries, like Fabrication (semiconductor) and Fabrication (metal) manufacturers 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 United Kingdom 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 Economics—perhaps a quarter of aggregate world production of Good (accounting) and Service—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.

=Manufacturing topics=

==Taxonomy of manufacturing processes==

Taxonomy of manufacturing processes (separate page)

==Manufacturing systems==

*Craft or guild *English system of manufacturing *American system of manufacturing 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

CNC

Distributed Control Systems

Fieldbus control systems

PLC

==Assembly systems==

*Assembly line *Industrial robot

==Design==

*Rapid prototyping *CAD *New product development

==Others==

*Primary industry *Factory *Distribution (business) *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

=External links=

http://manufacturing.stanford.edu - A site with videos showing the manufacturing process for many everyday things