Factory
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This article is about manufacturing plants and different kinds of factories. For other uses, see Factory (disambiguation).
A factory worker in 1940s Fort Worth, Texas.
A factory (previously manufactory) or manufacturing plant is an industrial building where workers manufacture goods or supervise machines processing one product into another. Most modern factories have large warehouses or warehouse-like facilities that contain heavy equipment used for assembly line production. Archetypally, factories gather and concentrate resources ? workers, capital and plant.
