production line


noun

an arrangement of machines or sequence of operations involved with a single manufacturing operation or production process. Compare assembly line, line1(def 29).

Origin of production line

First recorded in 1930–35

British Dictionary definitions for production line

production line

noun

a factory system in which parts or components of the end product are transported by a conveyor through a number of different sites at each of which a manual or machine operation is performed on them without interrupting the flow of production