# industry (economic)

an organized system where work makes products

- Computed level: L6 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: economic  ·  Arena: industry

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [work](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-work.effort), [system](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-system.organized), [products](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-products.goods), [make](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-make.verb), [organized](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-organized.structure)

**Through:** organized system and work make products

**Novel properties:**
- organized production
- persistent output
- structural integration of effort

## Examples
- The Ford River Rouge Complex in 1927 produced entire Model T cars from raw materials on site. *(economics)*
- Intel's Fab 11X in Chandler, Arizona, manufactured 300mm semiconductor wafers in 2001. *(engineering)*
- The cod fishing industry on Newfoundland's Grand Banks collapsed by 1992 after centuries of operation. *(institutions)*

## Used by
- [economic](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-economic.financial) (L17)
- [industrial](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-industrial.economic) (L13)

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*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-industry.economic.json*  
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