Manufacturing

Roles: factory, assembly-line, raw-material, product, mold, worker, quality-control, inventory

The industrial production of goods through systematic processes — raw materials enter, finished products emerge, and the machinery in between is designed for repeatability, efficiency, and scale. Manufacturing vocabulary pervades software design (factories, builders, pipelines, assembly) because both domains grapple with the same core problem: how to produce many instances of something reliably from a specification. The metaphor is structurally rich but imports assumptions about physicality, resource consumption, and labor that often mislead.

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