Recent years have shown the evolving role of learning factories: from learning factories in academic environments to cooperative academic-industry learning factories and an audience that goes beyond students. This contribution aims to expand learning factories beyond a dedicated premise, to uncouple the experiential learning offering from the location, and to understand it as an offering which can also be portable – both for operating a learning factory and for an recipient of learning. In the paper, it will be discussed how to go (1) from high investment costs to affordability for small training budgets; (2) from a learning factory as static location to portable experiential learning kits (e.g., to set-up at industry companies); (3) from long lead times to prepare the entire shop floor and production line to short lead times to deploy off-the-shelf portable learning factory kits; (4) from long construction time to build or extend a single, static learning factory with (typically) one production line to scalable offerings with multiple, portable learning kits which can be used simultaneously at multiple locations; (5) from a curriculum with a set of learning modules tailored to a learning factory to the potential of curricula of diverse learning factory kits; (6) from an audience connected to a local university to an even broader audience (e.g., industry companies, schools, non-profit organizations). This contribution compares different portable experiential learning factory kits based on a multi-dimensional assessment and relates them to a conventional, static learning factory as a reference. Based on this, a framework is presented which can be used to support the decision-making process for the selection of a static vs. portable learning factory.