I work as an engineer in manufacturing, coincidentally to this article I work at an integrated Steelworks. I know our plant has a visitor's center and there is a company that takes tour groups through the site on certain days (mostly school children). I have heard some other sites such as mines and power stations also do tours. Depending on where you live there may be a site nearby that you could visit, nothing like experiencing it first hand.

For books I'd recommend the "Chemical Engineers' Handbook" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry's_Chemical_Engineers'_Ha...

That's a pretty good general textbook that should give you a lot of fundamentals. We keep a copy in our office and it's well thumbed through.

Anything else I could recommend would be much less general more specialized topic (i.e thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, solid mechanics etc).

Sorry I can't really offer more than that Manufacturing is a hugely broad discipline. To start with maybe consider if you are more interested in primary processing (mining, refining, smelting etc) or secondary processing (turning raw materials into products).

Various museums of science and industry. A library.

There are numerous areas ofmanufacturing. Pick one to begin study.

https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=kw+industrial+engineering&...

You can come intern at my factory in Arizona, no charge :)

I will teach you about laser cutting, robot welding, keeping the supply chain going, and how to make a profit when competing directly with China and India.

Work in manufacturing.