What kind of job do you have ?
I am the manager at a manufacturing company .
What is manufacturing ?
It is the use of machines , tools and labor to make goods for use or sale .
What does your company manufacture ?
Our company uses raw materials to create engine parts .
Do you sell your engine parts directly to consumers ?
A small amount of our finished products are sold to consumers .
And the rest are sold to other manufacturers .
Yes, and they use our finished products for more complex products like airplanes .
Does your company use a specific kind of manufacturing ?
Our factory uses mass production to create our parts .
And what is mass production ?
It is the production of large amounts of products , usually with the aid of an assembly line .
I thought that assembly lines only had people on them .
No , many assembly lines use machines that are controlled by people .
So the machines do the work , and the people just make sure it is done right .
Exactly , and that is how our goods are produced from raw materials .
How do you know that every product comes out right ?
Every manufacturing company has some sort of quality control .
It checks to finished products to make sure they are correct .
Quality control can’t check every single piece , because it is a system of checking random pieces .
So some bad products might make it out the door .
Yes , but it is very unlikely .
With manufacturing, there is some risk , but overall it is very important to society .
Exactly , because without manufacturing , we would not have the goods that we depend on .
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