on the factory floor

factory floor | Business English

factory floor
noun[ S ]
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 the factory floor
WORKPLACE (alsothe shop floor)
the people in a factory who make the products rather than its office workers or managers, or the place in a factory where the products are made:
The rumor on the factory floor is that there will be further job losses.
China has effectively become the world's factory floor.

factory-floor

adjective[ before noun ]
relating to the people in a factory who make the products, or the part of a factory where the products are made:
Safety inspectors recommended the introduction of protective headgear for factory-floor workers.

Examples of factory floor

factory floor
The problematizing of the factory thus extended to the very nature of the persons to inhabit the factoryfloor, their capacities and attributes.
However, it's possible to develop embedded intelligence and control for the smallest factoryfloor devices.
The long-standing "functional" arrangement of people and machines on the factoryfloor was to be dismantled.
Direct costs results from highly visible and documented costs of labor and material used on the factoryfloor.
In many cases the program can be created off-line and only these arguments are supplied on the factoryfloor.
A diagram of the new factoryfloor has to be created.
This was to be the focus of a subsequent development, the attempt to diagram a new layout for the factoryfloor.
Such calculations left the factoryfloor more or less unchanged.
Our account of this process stops at the moment when a new arrangement of persons and machines is in place on the factoryfloor.
The paper presents the development of embedded intelligence and control for the smallest factoryfloor devices.
Face-threatening talk on the factoryfloor: using authentic workplace interactions in language teaching.
The factoryfloor was to be divided up into "bundles," segments, or physical areas that could be diagramed, pointed to, and when built, photographed.
Nothing less than a new diagram of the factoryfloor would make the notion of competitiveness a reality.
This happens whenever a vehicle or robotic manipulator is used to move materials, parts or minerals on the factoryfloor or outdoors.
Marked versus unmarked choices on the auto factoryfloor.
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