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. -- 装配线；流水作业线
assembly-line workers 装配线上的工人
The following paragraphs describe the component nodes associated with the three basic assembly line processes: alignment, pre-join, and post-join.
The assembly line ruined that system because it made both positive and negative reciprocity by individual workers impossible.
But these were not the same machines as had originally rolled off the assembly line.
Assembly line workers could not reciprocate a gift of higher wages with higher effort because the speed of the line was fixed.
Second, the technology of the assembly line brought with it low monitoring costs and a nearly 100% chance of catching shirking workers.
In addition to eliminating the need for skilled workers, the assembly line also reduced the monitoring costs to zero.
However, it reversed a key principle of the old assembly line.
The use of dynamic programming (state-dependent) assembly line balancing to improve throughput.
