An assembly line is an arrangement of workers and machines in a factory, where each worker deals with only one part of a product. The product passes from one worker to another until it is finished.
...a man who works on an assembly line.
assembly line in British English
noun
a sequence of machines, tools, operations, workers, etc, in a factory, arranged so that at each stage a further process is carried out
assembly line in American English
US
in many factories, an arrangement whereby each worker performs a specialized operation in assembling the work as it is passed along, often on a slowly moving belt or track
assembly line in Mechanical Engineering
(əsɛmbli laɪn)
Word forms: (regular plural) assembly lines
noun
(Mechanical engineering: Manufacturing and assembly)
An assembly line is an arrangement of workers and machines in a factory, where each worker deals withonly one part of a product. The product passes from one worker to another until itis finished.
To speed up production, he set up an assembly line, with each worker producing a different part of the tool.
At least 200 women worked in the main factory, on assembly lines running down the length of the building.
An assembly line is an arrangement of workers and machines in a factory, where each worker deals withonly one part of a product. The product passes from one worker to another until itis finished.
assembly
Examples of 'assembly line' in a sentence
assembly line
By one of the assembly lines, players walked beneath a sign which read.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Very little mass production work is assembly line work.
Peter F. Drucker MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices (1974)
Worse still, the automobile assembly line makes each man a threat rather than a resource to his fellow worker.
Peter F. Drucker MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices (1974)
Elderly patients will receive dignified care only when managers stop seeing wards as factory assembly lines, health experts said yesterday.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Machines take no account of human needs, and you need not be working on a factory assembly line to feel as though you are.
Atkinson, Jacqueline M Coping with Stress at Work (1988)
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assembly line
British English: assembly line NOUN
An assembly line is an arrangement of workers and machines in a factory, where each worker deals with only one part of a product.