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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. 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 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. Manufacturing Topics Taxonomy of manufacturing processesTaxonomy of manufacturing processes (separate page) Manufacturing Systems
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