factory

Also known as manufacturing plant, manufactory, factories, manufactories, manufacturing plants, workshop, workshops, mill

thumb|250px|Volkswagen factory in [[Wolfsburg, Germany]]

AI overview

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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Research

28,372 papers

Cell Factory Engineering.ReviewCell systems · 2017Davy AM, Kildegaard HF, Andersen MRDOI: 10.1016/j.cels.2017.02.010
Plant Factory: A New Playground of Industrial Communication and Computing.ReviewSensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Liu Y, Mousavi S, Pang Z et al.DOI: 10.3390/s22010147
Anatomy of a twin DNA replication factory.ReviewBiochemical Society transactions · 2020Li H, Yao NY, O'Donnell MEDOI: 10.1042/BST20200640
Microfluidics for cell factory and bioprocess development.ReviewCurrent opinion in biotechnology · 2019Bjork SM, Joensson HNDOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2018.08.011
Technology of plant factory for vegetable crop speed breeding.ReviewFrontiers in plant science · 2024He R, Ju J, Liu K et al.DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2024.1414860
Information and communication integration in smart factory design.F1000Research · 2022Fauska C, Kniežová JDOI: 10.12688/f1000research.122355.2
[Advances of polymer-monomer production by cyanobacterial cell factory].Sheng wu gong cheng xue bao = Chinese journal of biotechnology · 2021Qian M, Tan C, Ni J et al.DOI: 10.13345/j.cjb.200637
Yeast Systems Biology: Model Organism and Cell Factory.ReviewBiotechnology journal · 2019Nielsen JDOI: 10.1002/biot.201800421

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Encyclopedic overview

12 sections

Contents

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.

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