| Assembly line | Equipment or work processes are arranged according to the progressive steps by which the product is made.
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| Assembly-line balancing | The problem of assigning all the tasks to a series of workstations so that each workstation has no more than can be done in the workstation cycle time, and so that idle time across all workstations is minimized.
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| Manufacturing cell | Groups dissimilar machines to work on products that have similar shapes and processing requirements.
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| Precedence relationship | The order in which tasks must be performed in the assembly process.
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| Project layout | The product remains at one location, and equipment is moved to the product.
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| Systematic layout planning (SLP) | A technique for solving process layout problems when the use of numerical flow data between departments is not practical. The technique uses an activity relationship diagram that is adjusted by trial and error until a satisfactory adjacency pattern is obtained.
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| Workcenter | Also called a job-shop or functional layout; a format in which similar equipment or functions are grouped together.
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| Workstation cycle time | The time between successive units coming off the end of an assembly line.
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