Factory puzzle

Factory puzzle is a style of logic puzzle incorporating the automation and mechanical manufacturing of factory simulation games. Puzzles are built around factory construction, featuring modules or machines which are placed into a production line, with a specific product as the goal. These assembly lines commonly involve conveyor belts, like in Manufactoria (2010), or sometimes robotic arms, such as in The Codex of Alchemical Engineering (2008). Zachtronics Industries is highly influential in the genre, and contributes to its heavy overlap with programming games. In this overlap, the puzzles are solved not only by placing modules, but programming the logic for how many of the modules operate.