manufacturing center

Industrial output locale

A manufacturing center is a city or region where industrial production is concentrated.

The term implies factories, workers, and the infrastructure that supports them: Detroit was once America's manufacturing center for automobiles.

A facility within a company may also be called a manufacturing center if it serves as the hub for production operations.

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assembly plant · blue collar · steelworks · automation · loading dock · 3D printing · power grid · labor unions · transportation network · employee housing · production line · assembly line worker · industrial zone · free trade zone · smokestacks · urbanization · trade agreements · supply chain

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economic function

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System based on intangible work

financial center · tech hub · commercial center · knowledge economy · information economy

economic development stage

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Settlement centered on farming

farming community · agricultural area · subsistence economy · bedroom community · ghost town

resource extraction vs. production

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Settlement serving ore extraction

fishing port · logging town · oil field

Family

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