Manufacturing, any industry that makes products from raw materials by the use of manual labour or machinery and that is usually carried out systematically with a division of labour. In a more limited sense, manufacturing denotes the fabrication or assembly of components into finished products on a fairly large scale. Among the most important manufacturing industries are those that produce aircraft, automobiles, chemicals, clothing, computers, consumer electronics, electrical equipment, furniture, heavy machinery, refined petroleum products, ships, steel, and tools and dies.
- Food and Kindred Industry
- Apparel Industry
- Chemical and Allied Industry
- Electronic and Electrical Equipment Industry
- Fabricated Metal Industry
- Furniture and Fixtures Industry
- Industrial and Commercial Machinery Industry
- Leather Industry
- Lumber and Wood Industry
- Measuring, Analyzing and Controlling Instrument Industry
- Miscellaneous Manufacturing Industries
- Paper and Allied Industry
- Petroleum Refining and Related Industry
- Primary Metal Industry
- Printing, Publishing, and Allied Industry
- Rubber and Miscellaneous Plastic Industry
- Stone, Clay, Glass, and Concrete Industry
- Textile Mill Industry
- Tobacco Industry
- Transportation Equipment Industry