List of manufacturing processes

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

Casting

Data from Fundamentals of modern manufacturing

Labeling and painting

Main articles: Imaging and Coating

Moulding

Forming

Machining

Joining

Additive manufacturing

• 3D printing
• Direct metal laser sintering
• Filament winding, produces composite pipes, tanks, etc.
• Fused deposition modeling
• Inkjet Printing
• Laminated object manufacturing
• Laser engineered net shaping
• Layered manufacturing
• Rapid Induction Printing
• Selective laser sintering
• Spark plasma sintering
• Stereolithography

Other

See also

• Worker–machine activity chart

References