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Definition of Assembly line

1. Noun. Mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it.

Definition of Assembly line

1. Noun. (manufacturing) 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 ¹

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Literary usage of Assembly line

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of the Commonwealth of Florence: From the Earliest Independence of by Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1865)
"... character of this board—Discussion of the matter in this assembly—Line taken by the defenders of the five citizens— Appeal to the Great Council—Violent ..."

2. My Life and Work by Henry Ford, Samuel Crowther (1922)
"In the early part of 1914 we elevated the assembly line. We had adopted the policy of "man-high" work; we had one line twenty-six and three quarter inches ..."

3. Elements Of Ergonomics Programs: A Primer Based On Workplace Evaluations Of by Alexander L. Cohen (1997)
"Building an assembly line with these ergonomie workstation features may be less costly than retrofitting existing lines. Another advantage is that the ..."

4. Ford Methods and the Ford Shops by Horace Lucian Arnold, Fay Leone Faurote (1915)
"If the moving-assembly line has been used elsewhere, probably this publication will bring ... When the moving-assembly line was placed in work with 29 men, ..."

5. Stochastic Inequalities by Yung Liang Tong, Moshe Shaked (1992)
"4.2 Flexible assembly line Consider an m-stage serial assembly line. Parts arrive at this assembly line according to a Poisson process with rate A. The ..."

6. Capital, the State, and Labour: A Global Perspective by Juliet Schor, Jong-Il You (1995)
"The worker adapts himself to the machine to the point of being able to control it as if it were a part of his brain' (an assembly line worker quoted by Le ..."

7. Biological, Social, and Organizational Components of Success for Women in by National Academy of Sciences (U.S., National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine (U.S. (2006)
"The lipstick factory employed people on the assembly line in feminine uniforms, and every assembly line had a male supervisor in a white lab coat. ..."

8. Quarterly of the National Fire Protection Association by National Fire Protection Association (1896)
"This step in production is .1 readjustment of errors made on the assembly line and discovered by the inspection In one corner of ..."

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