factory
Industrial production building
A factory is a building or complex where goods are manufactured, typically using machinery and assembly lines: The factory produces car parts.
The word extends to any site of mass production: a puppy factory, a diploma factory.
Factory farming raises livestock in high-density, industrial conditions.
A factory worker or factory job suggests manual labor in manufacturing.
Automaton design field
- sensorsDevices that detect input
- actuatorsMovement-producing mechanisms
- conveyorMechanism that transports items
- servomechanismFeedback-controlled automatic mechanism
Mechanism that transports items
- workstationTechnical computing system
- componentsConstituent parts
- partsIndividual elements of whole
- workersPeople doing jobs
line · fitting · joining · fastening · bolting · riveting · welding · soldering
Tall industrial exhaust pipes
- emissionsSubstances released into air
- chimneyVertical smoke passage
- sootCarbon from incomplete burning
- exhaustUse up entirely
fumes · smog · particulates · effluent · carbon · scrubbers · filtration · waste
All available workers
overtime · wages · blue-collar · foreman · supervisor · payroll · timesheet · hourly
Collective mechanical equipment
- toolingIndustrial machinery preparation
- fabricationDeliberately untrue statement
- millingProcessing grain mechanically
- forgingShaping heated metal; faking documents
casting · molding · extrusion · stamping · machining · CNC · lathe · die
Botanical organism
- warehouseBulk goods storage building
- millGrain-crushing facility
- facilitySkill or equipped premises
- floorIndoor walking surface
shipping · receiving · gates · cafeteria · office · compound · perimeter · security
What something generates
- throughputProcessing rate over time
- capacityMaximum amount containable
- efficiencyProductive without waste
- yieldProduce or relinquish
batch · mass-production · inventory · goods · scale · shift · quota · downtime
robotics
Automaton design field
conveyor
Mechanism that transports items
- workstationTechnical computing system
- componentsConstituent parts
- partsIndividual elements of whole
workers · line · fitting · joining · fastening · bolting · riveting · welding · soldering · inspection
smokestacks
Tall industrial exhaust pipes
- emissionsSubstances released into air
- chimneyVertical smoke passage
- sootCarbon from incomplete burning
exhaust · fumes · smog · particulates · effluent · carbon · scrubbers · filtration · waste · runoff
workforce
All available workers
shifts · overtime · wages · blue-collar · foreman · supervisor · payroll · timesheet · hourly · sweatshop
machinery
Collective mechanical equipment
- toolingIndustrial machinery preparation
- fabricationDeliberately untrue statement
- millingProcessing grain mechanically
forging · casting · molding · extrusion · stamping · machining · CNC · lathe · die · press
plant
Botanical organism
floor · shipping · receiving · gates · cafeteria · office · compound · perimeter · security · entrance
output
What something generates
- throughputProcessing rate over time
- capacityMaximum amount containable
- efficiencyProductive without waste
yield · batch · mass-production · inventory · goods · scale · shift · quota · downtime · bottleneck
- placescity, town, village, hamlet, building
- buildingshouse, hospital, hotel, school, bank
- industrializationindustrial revolution, Industrial Revolution, urbanisation, assembly lines, auto plants
- industryautomotive, aerospace, logistics, assembly plant, industrial park
- manufacturingassembly plants, production line, assembly line, plant, plants
- operationsoperation, operations, military operation, joint operation, workflow
factoryworkshop
Place for making or learning
cottage industry · atelier · maker space · smithy · handmade
factorynature
Inherent quality or disposition
wilderness · farm · forest · wild · natural environment
factorystore
Retail establishment
shop · marketplace · retail outlet · showroom · consumer
- factory robotsAutomated manufacturing machinery
- factory workerManufacturing floor employee
- factory settingsOriginal device configuration
- chocolate factoryFacility producing cocoa-based sweets
- factory farmingIntensive livestock production system
- factory resetReverting device to original
factories, factory reset, benefactor, malefactor, manufactory, factorylike, factory worker, factory farming, factory farm