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  2. Machine - Wikipedia

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    After electrification, when most small machinery was no longer hand powered, mechanization was synonymous with motorized machines. [ 59 ] Automation is the use of control systems and information technologies to reduce the need for human work in the production of goods and services.

  3. Machinist - Wikipedia

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    Machinery repairman creates helicopter part aboard an aircraft carrier. A machinist is a tradesperson or trained professional who operates machine tools, and has the ability to set up tools such as milling machines, grinders, lathes, and drilling machines.

  4. Machinery (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Machinery may also refer to: Agricultural machinery, machinery used in agriculture; Cotton-spinning machinery, machinery used to spin cotton; Stage machinery, mechanical devices used in stage productions; Machinery of government, processes of government; Machinery, a 1920 drawing by Charles Demuth; Machinery Records, a German record label

  5. Machine tool - Wikipedia

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    Machine tools filled a need created by textile machinery during the Industrial Revolution in England in the middle to late 1700s. [8] Until that time, machinery was made mostly from wood, often including gearing and shafts. The increase in mechanization required more metal parts, which were usually made of cast iron or wrought iron. Cast iron ...

  6. Machining - Wikipedia

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    CNC machine pouring coolant to keep the tool and parts from getting hot Lathe machine. Machining is a manufacturing process where a desired shape or part is created using the controlled removal of material, most often metal, from a larger piece of raw material by cutting.

  7. Glossary of mechanical engineering - Wikipedia

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    Classical mechanics – describes the motion of macroscopic objects, from projectiles to parts of machinery, and astronomical objects, such as spacecraft, planets, stars and galaxies. Clean room design – the method of copying a design by reverse engineering and then recreating it without infringing any of the copyrights associated with the ...

  8. Category:Machines - Wikipedia

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    Machinery (9 C, 11 P) Mechanical computers (2 C, 34 P) Mechanical musical instruments (4 C, 34 P) Mechanical toys (2 C, 17 P) Molecular machines (1 C, 19 P) P.

  9. Manufacturing - Wikipedia

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    Manufacturing is the creation or production of goods with the help of equipment, labor, machines, tools, and chemical or biological processing or formulation.It is the essence of the secondary sector of the economy.