roll off the assembly/production line — ► to be produced in a factory: »The new vehicles roll off the assembly line in August. »The company s first locally made vehicle will roll off the production line within a year. Main Entry: ↑roll … Financial and business terms
Production leveling — Production leveling, also known as production smoothing or – by its Japanese original term – heijunka (平準化?),[1] is a technique for reducing the muda waste and vital to the development of production efficiency in the Toyota Production System and… … Wikipedia
assembly line — ➔ line * * * assembly line UK US noun [C] ► PRODUCTION, WORKPLACE a line of machines and workers in a factory which a product moves along while it is being built or produced. Each machine or worker performs a particular job, which must be… … Financial and business terms
assembly — as‧sem‧bly [əˈsembli] noun assemblies PLURALFORM 1. [uncountable] MANUFACTURING the process of putting the parts of products together: • Routine assembly of colour televisions eventually shifted to Taiwan. • a car … Financial and business terms
assembly plant — ➔ plant * * * assembly plant UK US noun [C] ► PRODUCTION, WORKPLACE a factory where parts of a machine or structure are put together: »BMW s latest car assembly plant is highly flexible and extremely productive. »Newark s economy will take a big… … Financial and business terms
assembly worker — ➔ worker * * * assembly worker UK US noun [C] ► PRODUCTION, WORKPLACE a person who works in a factory on an assembly line, performing a particular job which must be finished before the product moves to the next person: »The assembly worker uses… … Financial and business terms
production line — UK US noun [C] PRODUCTION ► ASSEMBLY LINE(Cf. ↑assembly line) … Financial and business terms
production line — 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… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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}. The objects to be… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
production line — production lines N COUNT A production line is an arrangement of machines in a factory where the products pass from machine to machine until they are finished. Their first car rolls off the production line on December 16. Syn: assembly line … English dictionary
production — [n] creating of goods, result assembly, authoring, bearing, blossoming, construction, creation, direction, elongation, engendering, extention, fabrication, formulation, fructification, generation, giving, lengthening, making, management,… … New thesaurus