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Sign in to savethumb|250px|Volkswagen factory in [[Wolfsburg, Germany]]
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A factory is a building or complex where goods are manufactured, typically using machinery and labor to produce items on a large scale. Factories matter because they are central to modern economies, enabling the mass production of everything from automobiles to consumer products that people depend on daily.
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12 sectionsContents
- History
- Industrial Revolution
- Assembly line
- Historically significant factories
- Siting the factory
- Governing the factory
- Shadow factories
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|250px|Volkswagen factory in [[Wolfsburg, Germany]]
A factory, manufacturing plant or production plant is an industrial facility, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another. They are a critical part of modern economic production, with the majority of the world's goods being created or processed within factories.