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• n  the act of making something (a product) from raw materials
  manufacturing is vital to Great Britain
• v  put together out of artificial or natural components or parts; He manufactured a popular cereal"
• v  make up something artificial or untrue
• v  produce naturally
• v  create or produce in a mechanical way
  This novelist has been manufacturing his books following his initial success

• The death of American manufacturing has been greatly exaggerated.
• India's once woeful manufacturing sector is starting to pick up steam.
• The engineer who turned Taiwan into a PC-manufacturing powerhouse.

• fabrication
• manufacture
• fabricate
• construct
• cook up
• make up
• invent

News & Articles

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• Manufacturing Profits Up in 1Q 2013
  U.S. manufacturing corporations saw their seasonally adjusted after-tax profits for the first quarter of 2013 total $152.5 billion, up $14.4 billion from the $138.1 total of the last quarter of 2012, according to a report from the U.S. Census Bureau. Profits were up $6.0 billion from the corresponding first quarter of 2012. The Global Manufacturer read more
  June 11, 2013 - Industry Week
• OnCore Manufacturing Appoints Walt Hussey as Chief Operations Officer
  OnCore Manufacturing, LLC, a global supplier of electronic manufacturing services, today announced that Walt Hussey has been appointed to the position of Chief Operating Officer. W
  June 11, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
• S.Africa's manufacturing up 7 percent y/y in April
  JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's manufacturing output rose 7 percent year-on-year in volume terms in April - far outpacing market expectations - after contracting 2.2 percent in March, Statistics South Africa said on Tuesday. On a month-on-month basis, factory production was up 8.4 percent, but fell 1.9 percent in the three months to April compared with the preceding period. Economists ...
  June 11, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in USA Today
  In 2008, American exports accounted for nearly 7 percent of our total employment, one in three manufacturing jobs, and supported 10.3 million jobs in all,Obama said.
• Yu Hai in The Associated Press
  The conflicts are challenging the current set-up of low-wage, low-tech manufacturing, and may catalyze the transformation of China's industrial sector,said Yu Hai, a sociology professor at Shanghai's Fudan University.
• Tom LaSorda in MediaScrape
  The national agreement is consistent with the economic pattern and balances the needs of our employees and company by providing a framework to improve our long-term manufacturing competitiveness,Chrysler vice-president and chairman Tom...