本文介绍了国外对工厂设计的论述:工厂设计是对投资项目全面的、系统的、详尽的设计,以合理的投入和期望的产出为目标,实现方案的优化。五十年代以前,工厂设计更多地依靠经验和定性的方法。五十年代以来,逐步向系统分析的方法、定量的方法发展。国外若干有关工厂设计的观念,有助于开阔我们的思路。 This article introduces the foreign discussion of factory design: The factory design is a comprehensive, systematic, and detailed design of the investment project, with the goal of reasonable investment and expected output, and the optimization of the project. Before the 1950s, factory design relied more on experience and qualitative methods. Since the 1950s, it has gradually developed systematic analysis methods and quantitative methods. A number of foreign concepts about factory design help to broaden our thinking.