| 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 tasks to a series of workstations so that the required cycle time is met and idle time 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 required order in which tasks must be performed in an 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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| Workstation cycle time | The time between successive units coming off the end of an assembly line.
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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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