Manufacturing at an industrial scale implies the creation or production of goods on a more or less large scale with the help of equipment, machines, tools, as well as physical, chemical or biological processing according to appropriate recipes and procedures. To do so, natural resources are utilized by exploiting the laws of nature. The manufacturing process itself is designed and optimized through engineering. Manufacturing engineering begins with the product design, and the materials specification. The materials are then transformed or modified to become the desired product.
Manufacturing and technology comprise, or touch, numerous sub-areas in which technical translations are required:
- Construction and urban planning
- Operational quality management
- Chemical technology
- Electrical engineering and control engineering, electronics
- Power Engineering
- Energy sources and mining
- Power Transmission
- Vehicle construction
- Consumer goods (excluding entertainment and household appliances)
- Equipment and apparatus engineering
- Information Technology
- Engineering services
- Air-conditioning technology
- Food and feed industry
- Aeronautical engineering and space technology
- Mechanical engineering incl. plant engineering
- Materials science and materials engineering
- Metal Industry
- Microtechnology
- Nanotechnology
- Standardization
- Pharmaceutical industry
- Shipbuilding and boat building
- Technical quality management
- Environmental process engineering and bioprocess engineering
- Weapons Technology