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manufacturingAny industry that makes products from raw materials by the use of manual labour or machines and that is usually carried out systematically with a division of labour. In a more limited sense, manufacturing is the fabrication or assembly of components into finished products on a fairly large scale. Among the most important manufacturing industries are those that produce aircraft, automobiles, chemicals, clothing, computers, consumer electronics, electrical equipment, furniture, heavy machinery, refined petroleum products, ships, steel, and tools. See also factory; mass production. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The exhibition foresees a moment when cutting-edge design, industrial manufacture, and consumer choice will be part of an egalitarian, computer-driven process. The crab-claw shows the strategy at its best, with the light filtered through the layered facade and projected into the interior to make it a kind of internal sun-dial: a relationship of space and light that was quite impossible before the invention of large-scale sheets of glass and industrial manufacture of aluminium. In de Monchaux's hands, however, modularity evokes not just industrial manufacture, but a distinctly biological, corporeal dimension as well, whether the implication is of cells, organs, or entire bodies. |
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