Manufacturing Engineering

Manufacturing Engineering is a branch of professional engineering concerned with the understanding and application of engineering procedures in manufacturing processes and production methods. Manufacturing engineering requires the ability to plan the practices of manufacturing; to research and to develop tools, processes, machines and equipment; and to integrate the facilities and systems for producing quality products with the optimum expenditure of capital.

The manufacturing or production engineer's primary focus is to turn raw material into an updated or new product in the most effective, efficient & economic way possible.

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