0 a line of machines and workers in a factory that a product moves along while it is being built or produced. Each machine or worker performs a particular job that must be finished before the product moves to the next position in the line. --
1 → assembly line --
It is in this environment that patients are now managed, rather than cared for and health care professionals have an increasing amount in common with production line workers.
The product had likely become contaminated at the plant through contact with a deteriorated rubber gasket of a pump in the production line after the product had been cooked.
There is no implication that the technique chosen will be anything like the way that the humans on the production line are currently dealing with scheduling problems.
Their managements treat them as such, processing them through a succession of rehearsals for a 'production line' of operas without calling on their creative or imaginative resources.
But this was not simply another opportunity to oppress women; the treatment of individuals as cogs in a musical production line was a practical business decision.
Initially, it felt uncomfortable to be looking at a health care service in the same way as a production line manager might in order to provide a more efficient service.
A production line that balances itself.
The usefulness of robots is increased when robots collaborate with each other in a production line.
