Broad ideas about how factories make goods and how production is organized, including the definition of manufacturing itself, the engineering discipline that plans it, software and methods that manage the processes and the Japanese tradition of craftsmanship in making things. These concepts frame the more specific methods of casting, assembly and inspection that engineers apply on the shop floor. Lean and quality methods and planning and analysis techniques have their own groups.
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Manufacturing (Wikipedia)
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Manufacturing is the creation or production of goods with the help of equipment, labor, machines, tools, and chemical or biological processing or formulation.
Manufacturing engineering (source article)
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Manufacturing engineering or production engineering is a branch of professional engineering that shares many common concepts and ideas with other fields of engineering such as mechanical, chemical, electrical, and industrial engineering.
Manufacturing process management (Wikipedia)
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Manufacturing process management (MPM) is a collection of technologies and methods used to define how products are to be manufactured.
Monozukuri (Wikipedia)
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Monozukuri (alternatively spelled monodzukuri, and literally meaning "production" or "making of things") is the Japanese term for manufacturing.
Contract manufacturer (Wikipedia)
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produces goods under contract for an outsourcing company
Job shop (Wikipedia)
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is a manufacturing system that handles custom/bespoke or semi-custom/bespoke manufacturing processes
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