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Factory, manufacturing systems, and production are closely related terms and often are not distinguishable, neither in literature nor in industry. In the following essay, manufacturing and production will be seen as functions for the generation of products (Chryssolouris 2006), whereas the factory represents the physical and logical means of performing production and manufacturing processes. An industrial manufacturing site includes the buildings, the manufacturing facilities, and the ground on which they are located (CIRP Dictionary of Production Engineering 2004).
Extended Definition
A factory is a local grouping of production factors for the realization of the entire or a part of the value chain of real goods. The main production factors are material, facilities, work force, energy, and information.
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The history of factories can better be described from the viewpoint of their main change drivers....
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Chryssolouris, G., Wiendahl, HP., Rentzos, L., Makris, S. (2014). Factory. In: Laperrière, L., Reinhart, G. (eds) CIRP Encyclopedia of Production Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20617-7_6553
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