What does manufacturing mean?

Definitions for manufacturing
man·u·fac·tur·ing

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word manufacturing.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. fabrication, manufacture, manufacturingnoun

    the act of making something (a product) from raw materials

    "the synthesis and fabrication of single crystals"; "an improvement in the manufacture of explosives"; "manufacturing is vital to Great Britain"

Wiktionary

  1. manufacturingnoun

    The action of the verb to manufacture.

  2. manufacturingnoun

    The transformation of raw materials into finished products, usually on a large scale.

ChatGPT

  1. manufacturing

    Manufacturing is the process of converting raw materials, components, or parts into finished goods that meet specific customer expectations or requirements. This process generally involves various stages such as designing, production, quality control, and packaging, with the aid of manual labor or machinery. It is a crucial aspect of industries such as automotive, electronics, food and beverages, pharmaceuticals, textile, and others. Manufacturing can be carried out in factories, plants, or mills, using different methods like assembly lines, craftsmanship, or through the use of technology.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Manufacturing

    of Manufacture

  2. Manufacturingadjective

    employed, or chiefly employed, in manufacture; as, a manufacturing community; a manufacturing town

  3. Manufacturingadjective

    pertaining to manufacture; as, manufacturing projects

Freebase

  1. Manufacturing

    Manufacturing is the production of goods for use or sale using labor and machines, tools, chemical and biological processing, or formulation. The term may refer to a range of human activity, from handicraft to high tech, but is most commonly applied to industrial production, in which raw materials are transformed into finished goods on a large scale. Such finished goods may be used for manufacturing other, more complex products, such as aircraft, household appliances or automobiles, or sold to wholesalers, who in turn sell them to retailers, who then sell them to end users – the "consumers". Manufacturing takes turns under all types of economic systems. In a free market economy, manufacturing is usually directed toward the mass production of products for sale to consumers at a profit. In a collectivist economy, manufacturing is more frequently directed by the state to supply a centrally planned economy. In mixed market economies, manufacturing occurs under some degree of government regulation. Modern manufacturing includes all intermediate processes required for the production and integration of a product's components. Some industries, such as semiconductor and steel manufacturers use the term fabrication instead.

Editors Contribution

  1. manufacturingverb

    Verb form of the word manufacture.

    The manufacturing industry is very innovative and streamlined their industries.


    Submitted by MaryC on April 6, 2020  

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  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'manufacturing' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2445

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'manufacturing' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3457

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'manufacturing' in Nouns Frequency: #1075

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of manufacturing in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of manufacturing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of manufacturing in a Sentence

  1. James Scott:

    If developed and implemented meaningfully, Cyber Shield Act could be a catalyst to incite responsible cybersecurity adoption and implementation throughout multiple manufacturing sectors. James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

  2. Michael Kobori:

    We always just assumed that we needed to look at what our manufacturing suppliers are doing, and the data just further substantiated the importance of instituting better cotton initiatives for farmers around the world, from there you can really focus on the consumer and bring the focus down from the manufacturing to the personal.

  3. Donald Duncan:

    In 1997 we were the fastest growing manufacturing metro area in the country and four years later it collapsed, what you can see on the ground today is 3,000 job openings. China's emergence as the world's low-cost producer and export superpower following its World Trade Organization entry in 2001 dealt a heavy blow to traditional industrial communities such as Hickory. Economists David Autor, David Dorn and Gordon Hanson have tried to separate the impact of trade from other factors affecting U.S. manufacturing employment and they estimate that between 1990 and 2007 Hickory lost 16 percent of its manufacturing jobs just due to surging imports from China. DEEP SCARS. Buffeted by other headwinds, such as the 1994 North American Free Trade agreement and the lifting of textile quotas in 2004, the area lost 40,000 manufacturing jobs overall, half the total, between 2000 and 2009. Nationally, more than 5 million manufacturing jobs have disappeared since 2000, a period that also included the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. The collapse left deep and still visible scars that help explain the appeal of Trump's pledge to bring back manufacturing's glory days. In Hickory, disability rolls soared more than 50 percent between 2000 and 2014, swollen by older workers who struggled to return to the workforce. At the same time, the share of the 25-34 year old in the population fell by almost a fifth between 2000 and 2010. Consequently, even as the unemployment rate tumbled from a peak above 15 percent in 2010 to 4.6 percent today, below the national average, so did the labor force participation rate. It fell from above 68 percent in 2000 to below 59 percent in 2014. Poverty levels doubled. Yet the manufacturing upswing in areas that suffered the most during the downturn is evident. Rust belt states, such as Michigan, Indiana and Ohio that may prove pivotal in the Nov. 8 presidential election, have been adding manufacturing jobs faster than the economy as a whole. Michigan, for example, which lost nearly half of its manufacturing jobs between 2000 and 2009, has since then seen a 25 percent rise, well above the 4 percent gain nationally. Manufacturing employment there is still well below the levels in the 1990s. Economists debate whether returning to that level is realistic given technological advances that have reduced manufacturing's share of the workforce from a high of above 30 percent in the 1950s to around 8 percent today. But they also feel that have already seen the bottom, particularly when it comes to China's impact.

  4. Ralph Nader:

    The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.

  5. Pete Stavros:

    The core competency of this business is really around engineering quality and manufacturing-related services. It's selling to the companies selling to the healthcare market, kind of as a B2B play.

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