This is the 840th most frequent Japanese word.
工業
Industrial manufacturing.
Here, 工業 (engineering/industry) is used as a descriptor for the city's main economic or functional characteristic.
その都市は工業都市として知られています。
That city is known as an industrial city.
In this sentence, 工業 (engineering/industry) refers to Japan's production and technological sectors as a whole.
日本の工業は世界的に評価されています。
Japan's industry is globally recognized.
工業 (engineering/industry) is used to describe a field of study related to industrial-specific applications like design.