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Outline of manufacturing

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Factory in 1958, photo by Paolo Monti

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to manufacturing:

Manufacturing – use of machines, tools and labor to produce goods for use or sale. Includes a range of human activity, from handicraft to high-tech, but most commonly refers to industrial production, where raw materials are transformed into finished goods on a large scale.

Overview

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Some manufacturing industries

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History

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Origins of manufacturing

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Industrial Revolution

Emergence of the factory

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Factory

Improvement of industrial processes

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Theories applied to manufacturing

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Operations of manufacturing

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Organizational control

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Manufacturing systems

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Product design

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Manufacturing engineering

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Assembly systems

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Modern manufacturing processes

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Taxonomy of manufacturing processes

Manufacturing process management

Concepts

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Lists

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By country

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See also

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