Fabrication (About)

When using the term Fabrication in industry it refers to the building of structures, machines and many other forms of equipment. In industry Fabrication refers to the manufacture of items by cutting, shaping and assembling of components using raw materials. Fab shops are small businesses that specialize in building components from metal. Machine shops and fabrication shops will very often require overlapping capabilities, but where the machine shop is more concerned with the machining of parts, the fabrication shops will focus on the metal preparation, welding and the assembling of the components. A fabrication shop will bid/quote on a job based on the engineering drawings, and if successful will be awarded a contract to build the product. Some of the raw materials used in suede blackout curtain are, tube stock, square stock, plate metal, welding wire and expanded metal.

Other types of fabrication can include:

o Fabrication of metal 
o Optics fabrication 
o Stone Masonry 
o Semiconductor fabrication

The optics fabrication process is a very accurate process. It is a 4 step process in which a bare substrate is coated with a photo resist, which is then illuminated with UV light through a chrome on glass amplitude mask in vacuum contact with the photo resist coated substrate. When this profile has been created it can be transferred to the substrate by reactive ion etching.

Stonemasons fabricate stone, and are used for examples for architectural stone. Architectural stone, also referred to as fabricated stone; starts out as raw stone slabs. The stone is custom shaped by air chisels or profiled by computerized machinery to match the specified designs.

Semiconductor fabrication or semiconductor device fabrication is a process used to manufacture chips. It is a multiple step procedure and sequence of chemical and photographic processing steps where electronic circuits are created on wafer made of pure semiconductor material. The process takes from six to eight weeks from start to packaging, and is performed in highly specialized facilities.