Manufacture is the production of labor, machinery, tools and chemical or biological processing or formulation through the use of goods. It is the core of the secondary sector of the economy. [1] The term may correspond to the range of human activity from High-tech to Craft, but is most commonly applied in industrial design, the primary sector regarding raw materials has been transformed into finished goods to a large extent. The goods in question are sold to retailers within other more complex (e.g. aircraft, household appliances, furniture, sporting goods or automobiles that may be sold to other manufacturers for the production of the products) or to end users and consumers (usually through wholesalers, for the distributed tertiary industry, then sell them individually. to customers).

Production engineering, or manufacturing process, are the steps in which raw materials are transformed into the final product. The production process starts with the product design and the material specification from which the product is made. These materials are then exchanged through manufacturing processes to become the required part.

Modern manufacturing includes all the intermediate processes required for the production and integration of a product's components. Some industries such as semiconductor and steelmakers use the term fabrication instead.