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

In Spain, they are assessing increased manufacturing at a Stellantis plant in Zaragoza, where a production line could be added to build a new electric sport-utility vehicle, or SUV, from Stellantis’s Opel brand.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

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

From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026

I try to give a smile of thanks, but he’s obviously still avoiding eye contact with me, so I pretend to be absorbed, observing the production line.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

Related Words

• assembly line