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Methods whose primary historical significance is organizing labor, workflow and quality across a manufacturing operation rather than shaping any one part. Belongs here: interchangeable parts and scientific management as the foundational systems of modern manufacturing organization, and lean manufacturing and Six Sigma as the quality- and efficiency-focused management methods that followed them. Does not belong here: methods for shaping or joining an individual mechanical part, grouped under Mechanical Engineering, even where an industrial-engineering method is applied on the same factory floor.
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