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Assembly line

Meaning in automotive, with examples

nounCore term

In automotive, assembly line means: A production line where a vehicle moves from station to station and workers or robots add parts in a fixed order until the car is complete.

In Turkish: montaj hattı, üretim bandı, bant

How it is used

Common in plant talk: a car rolls off the assembly line; the line stops, restarts or runs at a set cycle time. The main areas of a car plant are the body shop, the paint shop and final assembly.

Example sentences

  1. The first pre-series cars came off the assembly line in March.

  2. A missing part stopped the assembly line for twenty minutes.

Common collocations

  • roll off the assembly line
  • stop the line
  • final assembly
  • assembly line worker
  • paint shopThe area of a car plant, or a repair workshop, where bodies are cleaned, coated against corrosion and painted. In a plant the main layers are e-coat, primer, base coat and clear coat.
  • spot weldingA welding method in which two electrodes press sheets of metal together and pass a strong current through them, melting a small spot that joins the sheets. A car body has thousands of spot welds.
  • OEMShort for original equipment manufacturer. In the car industry it usually means the vehicle maker itself; in the parts trade, OEM parts are the original parts made by or for that maker.
  • tier 1 supplierA company that supplies parts or complete systems directly to a vehicle maker. Tier 2 suppliers sell to Tier 1 companies, and Tier 3 suppliers usually provide raw materials or basic parts.

This word in other fields

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