Factory (disambiguation)

A factory is a large industrial building where goods are manufactured. The word can be traced back to the Latin "factorium", which is literally "a place of making (producing)".

Factory may also refer to:

• Factory (trading post), the European colonial trade institutions and officially licensed trading posts (e.g., those for Native Americans in the early 19th century United States)
• Factory (software concept), a concept used in object-oriented software programming
• "Factory", a song on the 1978 Bruce Springsteen album Darkness on the Edge of Town
• "Factory", a song by Wall of Voodoo on their album Call of the West
• Factory method pattern, an object-oriented design pattern in software programming
• Factory Records, a British record label that operated from 1978 to 1992
• The Factory, Andy Warhol's New York City studio from 1963 to 1968
• Factory (Code Lyoko), a setting in the French animated series Code Lyoko
• Factory (computing), the "bleeding-edge" package distribution of openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise
• Factory system, the method of manufacturing using factories
• Factory (TV series), a comedy television series
• "Factory No. X" was a standardization of factory names in the Soviet Union (where "X" replaced with a number, which represented the individual factory).
• A Swedish Rock group formed in 1978.