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Manufacturing set-up
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assembly line
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A group of Benn's assembly line girls came in, joined them for half an hour, and went out again. ▪ Bureaucracies brought the same logic to government work that the assembly line brought to the factory. ▪ He was proud of his fully ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it [syn: production line , line ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
assembly line \assembly line\ n. A line of machinery, tools, and workers on which objects to be manufactured are moved from one post to the next, where different workers perform different steps in the manufacturing process; called also production line . ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An assembly line is a manufacturing process (most of the time called a progressive assembly ) in which parts (usually interchangeable parts ) are added as the semi-finished assembly moves from workstation to workstation where the parts are added in sequence ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context manufacturing English) A system of workers and machinery in which a product is assembled in a series of consecutive operations; typically the product is attached to a continuously moving belt
Usage examples of assembly line.
I remember the last Deng war, in which I fought as a rookie straight off the assembly line.
Ordinary ships can be grown on an assembly line to a common template, a hundred or a thousand of them identical.
The parts arrived mostly by train-loaded containers from ports on both American coasts, were separated by type, and stored in stockrooms adjacent to the portion of the assembly line at which they would be joined with the automobiles.
He's got an automated assembly line that will just keep churning them out, it's only distribution that is a problem.
Furthermore, production by assembly line creates a fundamental need for planned obsolescence or else the assembly line, by its own efficiency, would fill the needs of everyone in the market and be forced to shut down.
Micaya and Forister hadn't waited to take the full tour of the hyperchip assembly line.
They put every available Scot onto an assembly line converting bullets and they had cases and cases of them now.