production line

English

Noun

production line (plural production lines)

A doughnut production line.

1. (manufacturing) A set of sequential operations established in a factory whereby materials are put through a refining process or components are assembled to make a finished article.
   • 2024 March 20, Ben Jones, “Suppliers' uncertain wait for new trains”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 36:

     As the glut of new orders placed in the optimistic pre-pandemic years (worth billions of pounds) reaches its conclusion, production lines in Newton Aycliffe, Derby and Newport face a potentially barren future - as well as job losses that will be devastating for their communities and supply chains.

Translations

set of operations

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 生產線／生产线 (zh) (shēngchǎnxiàn)

• Dutch: productielijn (nl) f
• Finnish: tuotantolinja
• French: ligne de production f
• Hungarian: gyártósor (hu)
• Italian: linea di produzione f
• Japanese: 生産ライン (seisan rain), 製造ライン (seizō rain)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: produksjonslinje m or f

  Nynorsk: produksjonsline f, produksjonslinje f

• Polish: linia produkcyjna f
• Portuguese: linha de produção f
• Russian: пото́чная ли́ния f (potóčnaja línija)

See also

• assembly line