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Manufacturing is producing goods out of raw materials . It is a branch of industry . It includes making big, complicated things that need many steps to finish, and small, simple things. Often machines are involved in manufacturing. ^[1]

In the past, products were made by handicraft workers using tools and manual labor . In modern times, most manufacturing jobs were replaced by automated machines in a factory , which made the products much faster and in turn - cheaper than humans could.

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• How Everyday Things Are Made Archived 2018-11-19 at the Wayback Machine
• Engineers Edge
• Manufacturers Alliance
• Logistics Quarterly Archived 2007-02-05 at the Wayback Machine
• National Association of Manufacturers

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• Flexible manufacturing system

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