How to Use the factory floor in a Sentence

the factory floor

noun

• The culture on the factory floor was, ‘This is production.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2024
• Fights over transparency date back to the timekeeper on the factory floor.
  — Fred Turner, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023
• The vast majority of the country’s working class does not toil on the factory floor with a union to look out for their interests.
  — Greg Jaffe, Anchorage Daily News, 18 June 2023
• Tesla reasoned that sidestepping the drying process would cut its energy costs and free up the factory floor space.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Sep. 2021
• Management neglected to address problems on the factory floor and the causes of the cheating were complex, Sato said.
  — Yuri Kageyama, Quartz, 13 Feb. 2024
• The secret that makes lean work: getting everyone involved in the process, and especially the workers on the factory floor, to freely contribute their ideas.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2024
• But on the factory floor, bosses watched employees from dawn to dusk, tracking their movements with clocks, time sheets and human timekeepers.
  — Fred Turner, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023
• Al Ezell, who has stage 4 lung cancer and works at the battery plant, said last month that he was disciplined for having his phone on the factory floor, despite having permission to check it.
  — William Gavin, Quartz, 17 May 2024
• That labor was more likely to be located on the plantation or at the docks than on the factory floor, the site so central to classical Marxist theory.
  — Adom Getachew, Foreign Affairs, 22 June 2021
• Last year, the odds strongly favored a veteran insider, and like all its CEOs from the past two decades, not anyone bringing deep experience on the factory floor.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2024
• Union naysayers on the factory floor Within the Mercedes plant, there are workers warning about the potential pitfalls of unionization.
  — Stephan Bisaha, NPR, 5 Apr. 2024
• During Shanghai’s 2022 lockdown, some Tesla workers slept on the factory floor.
  — John Liu, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
• When these systems and data are set up for success, teams can successfully manage the problems that will come their way with minimal disruptions on the factory floor.
  — Richard Lebovitz, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
• Zeke Rodriguez, plant manager of Othello’s Simplot factory, worked his way from the factory floor to a corner office over 35 years with the company, which paid for his college degree.
  — Eli Tan, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Aug. 2023
• Neither such coders nor their managers are as in touch with the particular culture and mores of the aviation world as much as the people who are down on the factory floor, riveting wings on, designing control yokes, and fitting landing gears.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Apr. 2019
• In place of relying on China as the factory floor to the world, businesses are increasingly exploring ways to diversify.
  — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2023
• Your team has to work through failure after failure, setback after setback, and spend long hours on the factory floor getting the design successfully transferred into production.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Feb. 2023
• The story of cold, corporate machines treating workers like cogs to be economically exploited, swept from the factory floor and discarded in swift, callous fashion.
  — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2024
• According to Lund, every employee who comes out of foundational training gets assigned a mentor with more experience on the factory floor.
  — Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 27 June 2024
• Zildjian employee Damian Cox inspected cymbals for roundness on the factory floor.
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2023
• Frederick Winslow Taylor and his stopwatch ruthlessly optimized the factory floor at Bethlehem Steel by surveilling workers and forcing them to eliminate breaks and streamline their motions.
  — Jim Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2023
• Isaacson described Musk prowling the factory floor, reprogramming the factory’s manufacturing on the fly and even eliminating robots for certain tasks to speed up production.
  — Paige Hagy, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2023
• For example, a systems administrator might not be thinking about their building’s management systems, while a control systems engineer on the factory floor might not consider the laptops in their corporate offices.
  — Marcus Fowler, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• Worker-Directed Process Improvements Digital twins are mapping entire manufacturing plants with various sensors, enhancing the data flowing from the factory floor.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Aug 2024