My grandfather worked in a factory, it's a place where workers manufacture goods or operate machines that process one product into another.
That's interesting! Did he work in a factory for very long?
Yes I believe for almost 20 years, back then they only had small amounts of machinery and sometimes even fewer than a dozen workers, so he was always in need.
That's great! What kind of work did he do in the factory?
I think he worked in a factory that made continuous materials, like refined oil products, but I could be wrong.
That's cool!  Was he a supervisor or anything?
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Discrete products may be final consumer 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.
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Factory
A factory, manufacturing plant or a production 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.
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