assembly-line

Its operations-assembling iPhones for Apple, Kindles for Amazon and PlayStations for Sony-employ legions of young assembly-line workers who often toil 60 hours a week for about$ 2.50 an hour.

它的工厂会为苹果（Apple）装配iPhone，为亚马逊（Amazon）装配Kindle，为索尼（Sony）装配PlayStations，它雇用了大批年轻的装配线工人，他们常常每周辛苦地工作60个小时，时薪约为2.5美元。

With orders scheduling and inserting adopted by production-line plants as the objects of the study, the problems of orders sorting and production arrangement are studied to discuss how to distribute orders to assembly-line to realize production allocation optimization.

本文以装配流水线企业的订单排序、插单等问题为研究对象，重点是对订单的选择排序及排产问题进行研究，寻求将订单分配到各条装配流水线，达到生产资源的最优配置。

Frederick W. Taylor, the efficiency expert who early in this century conducted the time-and-motion studies that led to the assembly-line process, tried to reduce workers to robots, all in the name of greater production.

弗雷德里克W泰勒，是本世纪初进行时间和运动研究的效率专家，这种研究产生了装配线工序。他试图把工人变成机器人，只是为了更大的产量。