assembly plant
Production line building
An assembly plant is a factory where components manufactured elsewhere are brought together and assembled into finished products.
The term is most associated with automobile manufacturing, where engines, bodies, and parts converge for final assembly: The company announced it would close two assembly plants in the Midwest.
Distinguished from plants that fabricate raw materials or manufacture individual components.
Mechanism that transports items
- production floorManufacturing workspace area
- workstationTechnical computing system
- fabricationDeliberately untrue statement
- machiningSubtractive metalworking process
welding · soldering · stamping · pressing · molding · casting · fastening · joining
Automaton design field
- industrial robotsProgrammable machines for factories
- conveyorMechanism that transports items
- machineryCollective mechanical equipment
- sensorsDevices that detect input
actuators · PLC · control systems · servomechanism · pneumatics · hydraulics · embedded systems · feedback loops
Relating to motor vehicles
- aerospaceAtmosphere plus outer void
- electronicsStudy of circuits
- shipbuildingConstructing maritime vessels
- pharmaceuticalsManufactured therapeutic substances
food processing · chemicals · plastics · OEM · supply chain · logistics · mass production · outsourcing
Lacking fat; incline
- kaizenPhilosophy of incremental progress
- optimizationMaximizing efficiency or performance
- streamliningMaking more aerodynamic or efficient
- throughputProcessing rate over time
cycle time · bottleneck · waste reduction · continuous improvement · just-in-time · benchmarking · productivity · quality control
Joining into one
- laborStrenuous effort; also childbirth
- wagesPayment for work
- shiftMovement or work period
- overtimeWork beyond scheduled hours
blue-collar · workforce · teamsters · foreman · supervisor · technician · apprentice · journeyman
conveyor
Mechanism that transports items
- production floorManufacturing workspace area
- workstationTechnical computing system
- fabricationDeliberately untrue statement
machining · welding · soldering · stamping · pressing · molding · casting · fastening · joining · finishing
robotics
Automaton design field
- industrial robotsProgrammable machines for factories
- conveyorMechanism that transports items
- machineryCollective mechanical equipment
sensors · actuators · PLC · control systems · servomechanism · pneumatics · hydraulics · embedded systems · feedback loops · programming
automotive
Relating to motor vehicles
- aerospaceAtmosphere plus outer void
- electronicsStudy of circuits
- shipbuildingConstructing maritime vessels
pharmaceuticals · food processing · chemicals · plastics · OEM · supply chain · logistics · mass production · outsourcing
lean
Lacking fat; incline
- kaizenPhilosophy of incremental progress
- optimizationMaximizing efficiency or performance
- streamliningMaking more aerodynamic or efficient
throughput · cycle time · bottleneck · waste reduction · continuous improvement · just-in-time · benchmarking · productivity · quality control · inspection
union
Joining into one
overtime · blue-collar · workforce · teamsters · foreman · supervisor · technician · apprentice · journeyman · training
- industryfactories, factory, automotive, aerospace, logistics
- business locationsheadquarters, branch office, main office, regional office, corporate office
- factoriesfactory, car factory, toy factory, steel mill, furniture factory
- factoryfactory, conveyor belt, production floor, foreman, production
- producersproducer, manufacturer, maker, fabricator, factory
- Industrial AmericaRust Belt, steel town, mill town, foundry, smokestacks
assembly plantrecycling center
Facility processing discardables
wrecking yard · recycling plant · warehouse · storage facility · scrapyard
assembly plantmine
Ore excavation site
quarry · oil field · retail store · showroom · point of sale
plant, assemble, plants, assembly, planting, planted, planter, plantation, assembled