Manufacturing engineering

Manufacturing engineering, also called production engineering, is a branch of professional engineering concerned with planning how goods are made and with developing the tools, processes, machines and equipment used to make them. It rests on industrial and mechanical engineering skills and adds elements of mechatronics, commerce, economics and business management, and it shares ideas with chemical and electrical engineering as well. Its practitioners integrate facilities and systems so that raw material becomes a new or improved product in an effective, efficient and economical way, with the best use of capital. The field grew out of the tool-and-die trade in the early twentieth century and expanded from the 1960s as factories adopted numerically controlled machine tools, statistical quality control and later industrial robots.