conveyor-belt production
nounUK /kənˈveɪə bɛlt prəˈdʌkʃən/
US /kənˈveɪər bɛlt prəˈdʌkʃən/
A way of making things where each worker does one small job as the item moves past them on a moving belt.
The toy factory uses conveyor-belt production to make hundreds of cars every hour.
OTHER MEANINGS
2. A method of organizing work so that tasks pass in a fixed sequence from one worker or machine to the next.
The company switched to conveyor-belt production to speed up its packing process.
3. Any process that moves steadily and repetitively without pause, like a factory line.
Her morning routine felt like conveyor-belt production: coffee, shower, bus, desk.
4. The industrial system of standardized, continuous output pioneered in early twentieth-century factories.
Historians credit conveyor-belt production with lowering the cost of everyday goods.