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Manufacturing is the transformation of raw materials into usable products. �Manufacture� is derived from the Latin words manu factus, meaning made by hand. Most objects that people use every day are the result of manufacturing.
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The manufacturing process involves taking raw materials through a variety of steps to produce a finished product. Efficiency in the manufacturing process correlates directly to the cost of the product to the consumer.
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The rise of the factory system and mass production revolutionized manufacturing. Eli Whitney, Henry Ford, and Kiichiro Toyoda devised efficiency processes that made manufacturing what it is today.
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New Trends in manufacturing include processes such as built-in quality, kaizen and kanban as part of the innovative concept of lean production conceived by Japanese automotive manufacturers.
