manufacturing vs fabrication

manufacturing and fabrication both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
manufacturing	Yes	No	No	No
fabrication	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, manufacturing and fabrication are synonyms defined as:

manufacturing and fabrication: the act of making something (a product) from raw materials

Other synonyms of manufacturing include manufacture.

manufacturing (noun)	fabrication (noun)
the act of making something (a product) from raw materials	the act of making something (a product) from raw materials
	the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery)
	writing in a fictional form
	the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
	a deliberately false or improbable account