the factory floor

noun

: the part of a factory among the ordinary workers where products are made
There's talk on the factory floor about a possible strike.

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Xu declines to name its industrial clients, citing nondisclosure agreements, but says Chinese car makers will use R1 to ferry goods across the factory floor starting later this year. Yue Wang, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025 Each of the upper three floors has a balcony overlooking the factory floor. Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 21 Aug. 2025 Moreover, most of the jobs created by onshoring manufacturing will not be on the factory floor. Wally Adeyemo, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025 Just inside the doors of the employee entrance to Ford Motor Co.'s Dearborn Truck Plant is a scoreboard that looms high above a double set of steep stairs that carry the 3,600 employees up to the factory floor where the company builds its best-selling vehicle: the F-150 pickup. Jamie L. Lareau, Freep.com, 30 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for the factory floor

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