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 manufactured usually move on a form of conveyor belt, which does not necessarily move only in a straight line, but may continue around the factory area for some distance.
mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it
an example of this type of repetitive manufacturing
a production arrangement of workers and equipment in which the product that is being assembled passes consecutively from operation to operation, with each station adding to the work of previous stations, until the product is completed
a system of mass production in which a product is manufactured in a step-by-step process as it moves continuously past an arrangement of workers and machines
The assembly line is a mass-production process in manufacturing that simplifies the production process by moving the product along a conveyor, with each worker repeating the same limited task on each product as it comes by. The assembly line is closely identified with Henry Ford's revolutionizing of the automobile industry.
In many factories, it is an arrangement where each worker performs his own particular specialized operation as the item passes by, often on a slowly moving track.
An assembly line is a manufacturing process in which interchangeable parts are added to a product in a sequential manner to create a finished product. The assembly line was improved largely by Henry Ford and his engineers. Ford was also the first to build factories around that concept.