Manufacturing Facility

A Manufacturing Facility is an industrial facility that manufacture goods.

• Context:
  • It can (typically) be a part of a Factory System.
  • It can (typically) contain Manufacturing Proceeses.
  • It can (typically) be created by a Manufacturing Plant Creation Task.
  • It can (typically) be supplied by a Manufacturing Plant Supply Task.
  • It can (typically) be maintained by a Manufacturing Plant Maintenance Task.
  • It can range from being a Manual Factory (with factory workers) to being an Automated Factory.
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• Example(s):
  • the “Arsenale di Venezia” shipbuilding factory (from ~1104) which hired ~16,000 workers and produced ~1 per day;
  • the safety matches factory at Žilina, Slovakia (from ~1915);
  • an Automative Manufacturing Facility, such as: Volkswagen Wolfsburg Plant or Hyundai Motor Company Ulsan Factory.
  • a Semiconductor Fabrication Plant.
  • Tesla Gigafactory.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Warehousing Facility.
• See: Process Manufacturing, Industrial Revolution, Putting-Out System, Spinning Mule, Tool, Assembly Line, Continuous Production, Chemical, Pulp And Paper.

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References

2023

• (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/factory Retrieved:2023-7-17.
  • A factory, manufacturing plant or a 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.

    Factories arose with the introduction of machinery during the Industrial Revolution, when the capital and space requirements became too great for cottage industry or workshops. Early factories that contained small amounts of machinery, such as one or two spinning mules, and fewer than a dozen workers have been called "glorified workshops". Most modern factories have large warehouses or warehouse-like facilities that contain heavy equipment used for assembly line production. Large factories tend to be located with access to multiple modes of transportation, some having rail, highway and water loading and unloading facilities. In some countries like Australia, it is common to call a factory building a "Shed ".

    Factories may either make discrete products or some type of continuously produced material, such as chemicals, pulp and paper, or refined oil products. Factories manufacturing chemicals are often called plants and may have most of their equipment – tanks, pressure vessels, chemical reactors, pumps and piping – outdoors and operated from control rooms. Oil refineries have most of their equipment outdoors.

    Discrete products may be final goods, or parts and sub-assemblies which are made into final products elsewhere. Factories may be supplied parts from elsewhere or make them from raw materials. Continuous production industries typically use heat or electricity to transform streams of raw materials into finished products.

    The term mill originally referred to the milling of grain, which usually used natural resources such as water or wind power until those were displaced by steam power in the 19th century. Because many processes like spinning and weaving, iron rolling, and paper manufacturing were originally powered by water, the term survives as in steel mill, paper mill, etc.

2018

• https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/g2904/7-of-the-worlds-largest-manufacturing-plants/
  • QUOTE: Thousands of employees working in multiple shifts and handling expensive machinery is what makes the world economy tick. And usually the larger the manufacturing plant, the larger the efficiency. We look at over seven of the world's largest manufacturing plants, creating things like planes, cars, batteries, and lingerie—all small little cities of industry.
  • Volkswagen Wolfsburg Plant, Germany

    The largest car-making manufacturing plant in the world—70 million square feet large—resides in Wolsburg, Germany, pounding out 3,800 Volkswagen vehicles per day. That comes out to about 815,000 vehicles a year, at least in 2015. The factory halls alone take up a surface area of nearly 1 square mile, enough to accommodate the Principality of Monaco. Churning out four Golf lines, the Touran, and Tiguan, the Volkwagen plant — which first started manufacturing vehicles in 1945—handles everything from toolmaking to plastic production to housing one of the world's largest paint shops.

  • Hyundai Motor Company Ulsan Factory, South Korea

    From the 14 different Hyundai models manufactured in the five-building, 54 million square foot Ulsan Factory in South Korea to the engine and transmission production, this plant can churn out a vehicle every 12 seconds. Opened originally in 1968 and expanded ever since, 34,000 employees work on site—some even sleeping in the onsite dormitory. The facility also has its own sewage treatment plant and cargo ship pier.

  • Tesla Gigafactory, Nevada: While Tesla already boasts a 5.5 million square foot production facility in Fremont, California, for vehicle production, a brand-new Gigafactory outside of Sparks, Nevada, began battery cell production on January 4, 2017. By 2018, the factory will reach a size of 13 million square feet. In cooperation with Panasonic, the Gigafactory plans to achieve net zero energy as it continues to automize the battery-making process.
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2014

• (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/factory Retrieved:2014-9-28.
  • A factory (previously manufactory) or manufacturing plant is an industrial site, usually consisting of buildings and machinery, or more commonly a complex having several buildings, where workers manufacture goods or operate machines processing one product into another. ...

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