manufacturing
Definition
Includes all steps necessary to convert raw materials, components, or parts into finished goods that meet a customer's expectations or specifications. Manufacturing commonly employs a man-machine setup with division of labor in a large scale production.
manufacturing is in the Economics, Politics, & Society and Industries, Manufacturing, & Technology subjects.
manufacturing appears in the definitions of the following terms:
activity sampling,
shop calendar,
basic oxygen process,
throughput,
heavy industry,
flammable solid,
line production,
optimal plant,
synchronized manufacturing,
non-expendable inventory
and
manufacturing appears in the other terms:
manufacturing cost,
developmental manufacturing,
manufacturing sector,
private label manufacturing,
offshore manufacturing,
lean manufacturing,
manufacturing lead time,
manufacturing execution system (MES),
just in time manufacturing,
intelligent manufacturing systems
and
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