Autofac

It was adapted by Travis Beacham for an episode of the 2017 TV series, Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams, with the same name as the short story.

Five years earlier, during the Total Global Conflict, a network of hardened automatic factories ("autofacs") had been set up with cybernetic controls that determine what food and consumer goods to manufacture and deliver.

They destroy the delivery, but the truck radios the autofac and unloads an identical replacement, then prevents them from reloading items.

The autofac sends a humanoid data collector that communicates on an oral basis but is not capable of conceptual thought, and they are unable to persuade the network to shut down before it consumes all resources.

[1][2] The TV series Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams includes a one-hour episode based on the story, with considerable differences in the plot and outcome.

"Autofac" was originally published in the November 1955 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction (not to be confused with cover featuring author James H. Schmitz ).