Workshop

This article is about mechanical engineering. For other uses, see Workshop (disambiguation).

This museum workshop containing tools and supplies has been in use for decades.

During the "industrial era", a workshop may be a room or building which provides both the area and tools (or machinery) that may be required for the manufacture or repair of manufactured goods. Apart from the larger factories, workshops were the only places of production in the days before industrialisation.

During the "information era", a workshop describes an office or conference room meeting intended to create or generate plans, analysis, or design to support organizational efforts. Some people would differentiate a meeting from a workshop by suggesting that a meeting may contain an array of topics not dependent on each other in the sequence listed. For example, in a traditional "board meeting", the treasurer's report appears early but it could be moved to one of the last items on the agenda and the meeting could continue. Frequently workshops are focused on creating or delivering something (e.g., process improvement) and the sequence or order of the agenda items is critical to the development of the meeting output, frequently called a "deliverable".

Backshop

Some repair industries, such as the locomotive and aircraft repair operations have specialized workshops called backshops. For example, calibration and repair of United States Air Force test equipment is conducted at shops known as precision measurement equipment laboratories.

Most repair works are carried out in small workshops, except where an industrial service is needed.

See also

• The New Yankee Workshop

External links

• DIYinfo.org's - In The Workshop Wiki