FactoryDB
108 famous factories and industrial works, from the Venice Arsenal and Cromford Mill to the River Rouge, Boeing Everett, and the gigafactories. Browse by industry and country, and meet the plants that built the modern world.
Landmark Works
Cromford Mill
Richard Arkwrights first water powered cotton spinning mill and the breakthrough work of the Industrial Revolution. Built in a Der...
Venice Arsenal
The state shipyard of the Venetian Republic, producing war galleys with standardized parts and staged assembly a hundred years bef...
Ford River Rouge Complex
Fords colossal vertically integrated complex where lake freighters delivered ore that became steel, glass, tires, and finally cars...
Boeing Everett Factory
The largest building in the world by volume at roughly 13 million cubic meters, built to assemble the 747 jumbo jet. It has produc...
Toyota Motomachi Plant
Home plant where Taiichi Ohnos Toyota Production System matured: kanban pull signals, just in time flow, andon cords, and relentle...
Tesla Gigafactory Nevada
A battery megafactory with Panasonic in the Nevada desert, planned as one of the largest buildings on earth. It mass produces 2170...
Foxconn Zhengzhou Plant
Known as iPhone City, employing well over 100,000 people in peak season and assembling a large share of the worlds iPhones. The su...
Homestead Steel Works
Carnegie Steels flagship on the Monongahela and site of the 1892 Homestead strike, the bloody battle between Pinkerton agents and ...
Zollverein Colliery
The most beautiful coal mine in the world: Shaft 12, a cathedral of steel and brick in the New Objectivity style by architects Sch...