A factory, also known as a factory, is a large industrial building used to produce goods. Most factories have production lines composed of large machines or equipment. In the modern history of the world, it refers to the large-scale production of capitalist machines, that is, the capitalist industrial sites that replace manual labor with mechanized labor.
18-19th century, after the industrial revolution, machines were widely used in production, which laid a solid material and technical foundation for the capitalist mode of production. Capitalist economy finally defeated feudal economy and small commodity economy with mechanized mass production and established its dominant position. Modern factories are also called "factories" and "production enterprises".
Before the popularization of mass transportation, factories need to be located in densely populated areas and industrial areas. Therefore, most of the early factories were located in cities, and even urban development occurred with the construction of factories. Factories also tend to assemble with each other-many times the finished products or waste materials of one factory can become the raw materials of another factory.
Later, the transportation networks such as canals and railways expanded with the prosperity of factories, and factories began to be built near cheap energy, raw materials or markets. The improvement of the transportation network is also one of the considerations for the location of the factory: once a factory was built in a place where there was no one in the four fields but the transportation connection was convenient, and it was successfully developed and profitable.