Neodegenerate said:
The_Yoda said:
"to make or produce by hand or machinery, especially on a large scale."
In its earliest form, manufacturing was usually carried out by a single skilled artisan with assistants. Training was by apprenticeship. In much of the pre-industrial world, the guild system protected the privileges and trade secrets of urban artisans.
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Thus the innovative procedures part of the explanation. Also, with technology, definitions evolve. The manufacturers of yesteryear are more or less defined as artists today. Where manufacturing is more commercial and conventional.
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There was no context for time period given. Granted that line of the definition is somewhat dated but still valid. The term manufacture is a broad one. My reply was mostly just to refute that manufacturing needed to involve robotics and / or machinery. Oft times in this day and age it does involve such but that is not a prerequisite to an item or component being manufactured. Manufacturing can be completely organic for instance and can be interchanged with the word "produce" as in the body manufacturing blood cells and so forth. In that example it is likely the mass production part of the definition of manufacturing that lends the use of the word manufacture credence in conjunction with the process of forming blood cells. I'm not saying you were neccesarily wrong in your reply more like just incomplete. To be fair you also used the phrase "in a nutshell"
Look at the entymololgy of the word for instance
manufacture (n.) 1560s, "something made by hand," from Middle French
manufacture, from Medieval Latin
*manufactura (source of Italian
manifattura, Spanish
manufactura),
from Latin manu, ablative of manus "hand" (see
manual (adj.)) +
factura "a working," from past participle stem of
facere "to perform" (see
factitious). Sense of "process of manufacturing" first recorded c. 1600. Related:
Manufactures.