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List of manufacturing processes

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List of manufacturing processes

This tree lists various manufacturing processes arranged by similarity of function.

Contents

Casting

  • Centrifugal casting (industrial)
  • Continuous casting
  • Die casting
  • Evaporative-pattern casting
  • Full-mold casting
  • Lost-foam casting
  • Investment casting (lost wax casting)
  • Countergravity casting
  • Lost-foam casting
  • Low pressure die casting
  • Permanent mold casting
  • Plastic mold casting
  • Resin casting
  • Sand casting
  • Shell molding
  • Slush or slurry casting
  • Spray forming
  • Vacuum molding
    • Data from Fundamentals of modern manufacturing

    Imaging / Coating

  • Laser engraving
  • Inkjet printing
  • Chemical vapor deposition
  • Sputter deposition
  • Plating
  • Thermal spraying

    • Moulding

  • Powder metallurgy
  • Compaction plus sintering
  • Hot isostatic pressing
  • Metal injection moulding
  • Spray forming
  • Plastics (see also rapid prototyping)
  • Injection
  • Compression moulding
  • Transfer
  • Extrusion
  • Blow moulding
  • Dip moulding
  • Rotational moulding
  • Thermoforming
  • Laminating
  • Expandable bead
  • Foam
  • Vacuum plug assist
  • Pressure plug assist
  • Matched mould
  • Shrink fitting
  • Shrink wrapping

    • Forming

  • End tube forming
  • Tube beading
  • Forging
  • Smith
  • Hammer forge
  • Drop forge
  • Press
  • Impact (see also Extrusion)
  • Upset
  • No draft
  • High-energy-rate
  • Cored
  • Incremental
  • Powder
  • Rolling (Thick plate and sheet metal)
  • Cold rolling
  • Hot rolling
  • Sheet metal
  • Shape
  • Ring
  • Transverse
  • Cryorolling
  • Orbital
  • Cross-rolling
  • Thread
  • Screw thread
  • Thread rolling
  • Extrusion
  • Impact extrusion
  • Pressing
  • Embossing
  • Stretch forming
  • Blanking (see drawing below)
  • Drawing (manufacturing) (pulling sheet metal. wire, bar or tube
  • Bulging
  • Necking
  • Nosing
  • Deep drawing (sinks, auto body)
  • Bending
  • Hemming
  • Shearing
  • Piercing
  • Trimming
  • Shaving
  • Notching
  • Perforating
  • Nibbling
  • Dinking operation
  • Lancing
  • Cutoff
  • Stamping
  • Metal
  • Leather
  • Progressive
  • Coining
  • Straight shearing
  • Slitting
  • Other
  • Redrawing
  • Ironing
  • Flattening
  • Swaging
  • Spinning
  • Peening
  • Guerin process
  • Wheelon process
  • Magnetic pulse
  • Explosive forming
  • Electroforming
  • Staking
  • Seaming
  • Flanging
  • Straightening
  • Decambering
  • Cold sizing
  • Hubbing
  • Hot metal gas forming
  • Curling (metalworking)
  • Hydroforming

    • Machining

  • Mills
  • Grist mill
  • Hammer mill
  • Ball mill
  • Buhrstone mill
  • Disc mill
  • Saw mill
  • Steel mill
  • Blast furnace
  • Smelting
  • Refining
  • Reduction mill
  • Annealing
  • Pickling
  • Passivate
  • Coating
  • Milling
  • Turning
  • Lathe
  • Facing
  • Boring (also Single pass bore finishing)
  • Spinning (flow turning)
  • Knurling
  • Hard turning
  • Cutoff (parting)
  • Drilling
  • Friction drilling
  • Reaming
  • Countersinking
  • Tapping
  • Sawing
  • Filing
  • Broaching
  • Shaping
  • Horizontal
  • Vertical
  • Special purpose
  • Planing
  • Double housing
  • Open-side
  • Edge or plate
  • Pit-type
  • Abrasive jet machining
  • Water jet cutting
  • Photochemical machining
  • Abrasive belt
  • Honing (Sharpening)
  • Electro-chemical grinding
  • Finishing & industrial finishing
  • Abrasive blasting (sand blasting)
  • Buffing
  • Burnishing
  • Electroplating
  • Electropolishing
  • Magnetic field-assisted finishing
  • Etching
  • Linishing
  • Mass finishing
  • Tumbling (barrel finishing)
  • Spindle finishing
  • Vibratory finishing
  • Plating
  • Polishing
  • Superfinishing
  • Wire brushing
  • Routing
  • Hobbing
  • Ultrasonic machining
  • Electrical discharge
  • Electrical discharge machining (EDM)
  • Electron beam machining
  • Electrochemical machining
  • Chemical
  • Photochemical
  • Laser cutting
  • Laser drilling
  • Grinding
  • High stock removal
  • Gashing
  • Biomachining

    • Joining

  • Welding
  • Arc
  • Manual metal
  • Shielded metal
  • Gas metal
  • Pulsed
  • Short circuit
  • Electrogas
  • Spray transfer
  • Gas tungsten
  • Flux-cored
  • Submerged
  • Plasma arc
  • Carbon arc
  • Stud
  • Electroslag
  • Atomic hydrogen
  • Plasma-MIG (metal inert gas)
  • Impregnated tape
  • Regulated Metal Deposition
  • Oxyfuel gas
  • Oxy-acetylene gas
  • Methylacetylene propadiene (MAPP)
  • Air-acetylene
  • Oxyhydrogen
  • Pressure gas
  • CO2
  • Resistance
  • Butt welding
  • Flash butt welding
  • Shot welding
  • Spot welding
  • Projection welding
  • Seam
  • Upset welding
  • Percussion (manufacturing)
  • Solid state welding
  • Ultrasonic
  • Explosive
  • Diffusion
  • Hot press
  • Isostatic hot gas
  • Vacuum furnace
  • Friction welding
  • Inertia
  • Forge
  • Cold
  • Roll
  • Electron beam welding
  • Laser welding
  • Thermite
  • Induction
  • Low frequency (50–450 Hz)
  • High frequency (induction resistance; 200–450 kHz)
  • Others
  • Friction welding
  • Heated metal plate
  • Solvent
  • Dielectric
  • Magnetic pulse welding
  • Ultrasonic
  • Radio frequency welding
  • High frequency resistance
  • Electromagnetic
  • Flow
  • Resistance
  • Infrared
  • Vacuum
  • Hot-air-welding
  • Brazing
  • Torch
  • Induction brazing
  • Furnace
  • Dip
  • Soldering
  • Iron
  • Hot plate
  • Oven
  • Induction
  • Dip
  • Wave
  • Ultrasonic
  • Sintering
  • Adhesive bonding (incomplete)
  • Thermo-setting and thermoplastic
  • Epoxy
  • Modified epoxy
  • Phenolics
  • Polyurethane
  • Adhesive alloys
  • Miscellaneous other powders, liquids, solids, and tapes
  • Fastening wood and metal
  • Nailing
  • Screwing
  • (By material fastened)
  • Machine (Metal)
  • Wood Screws
  • (By slot type)
  • Phillips (“Plus sign” in Canada)
  • Straight (“Minus sign in Canada)
  • (By shape)
  • Round head
  • Flat head
  • Box head
  • Hex
  • Lag
  • Nut and bolts
  • Riveting
  • Clinching
  • Pinning
  • Cotter
  • Groove
  • Tapered
  • Roll
  • Retaining rings
  • Quick-release
  • Stitching
  • Stapling
  • Press fitting

    • Additive manufacturing

  • 3D printing
  • composite material winding of pipes, tanks, etc.
  • Direct metal laser sintering
  • Fused deposition modeling
  • Laminated object manufacturing
  • Laser engineered net shaping
  • Selective laser sintering
  • Stereolithography

    • Other

  • Mining
  • Quarrying
  • Blasting
  • Crushing
  • Chemical manufacturing
  • Petroleum refining
  • Semiconductor fabrication
  • Combining parts or components on an Assembly line
  • Packaging and labeling
  • Logistics
  • Woodworking
  • Joinery (see also joining above)
  • Lapping
  • Morticing
  • Routing (see above)
  • Biscuit (woodworking)
  • Vulcanizing

    • References

    List of manufacturing processes Wikipedia
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