Table of Manufacturing Processes

Make this page the parent page for your manufacturing web page. You can link your page to the table and combine rows in the table if necessary. I’ll finish up the table after Thursday’s class.

Basic tools

Power and Hand tools (wood and metal)

CNC machining

Overview
Mill
Lathe
Router
PCB Mill

Metal joining processes

Overview
Welding
Brazing
Soldering

Finishing

Finishing: Polishing, Grinding, Deburring, Sanding, Shot peening

Laser cutting

Overview
Rabbit Lasers
Epilog Lasers

Forming processes

Molding
Injection molding
Casting
Forging

3D printing

3D printing Overview
SLA (Form 2)
FDM (Stratasys, Ultimaker, Dremel, …)
Metal (experimental)
Concrete (experimental)

Soft fabrication

Sewing machines
Knitting machines
Looms

Other interesting processes

Vacuum forming
Waterjet cutting
Plasma cutter
Electronics
Assembly