production line

American  

noun

1. an arrangement of machines or sequence of operations involved with a single manufacturing operation or production process.

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production line British  

noun

1. 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

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Etymology

Origin of production line

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

The shift is most visible inside Xiaomi's EV factory outside Beijing, where a car rolls off the production line roughly every 76 seconds.

From BBC • May 27, 2026

At Nio's Hefei plant, parts of the production line are almost fully automated.

From BBC • May 27, 2026

Tesla’s first semi truck rolls off its high-volume production line.

From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026

Martel said his company has been actively building up inventory to prevent production line bottlenecks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

Once the pillow production line was again rolling smoothly, the meeting began.

From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson

Related Words

• assembly line