shop floor

noun

British
: the area where products are made in a factory
proper safety procedures for the shop floor
also : the workers in a factory
managerial control of the shop floor

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He’s also made a point of being closer to the action, buying a house in the Seattle area and spending more time on the factory shop floor. Julie Johnsson, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2024 The announcement of job cuts, alongside a wide range of other measures, threatens to drive a wedge into the already fragile rapport between senior management and the shop floor. Julie Johnsson, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2024 The impact of this new order on the shop floor can then be modelled and analyzed with the new manufacturing scheduling optimization simulation capability. Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024 Unlike traditional computing, which relies on servers in centralized data centers, colocation facilities or clouds, edge computing processes data locally — at the retail outlet, shop floor and traffic sensor. Alison Biers, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024 The shop assistants, who would often take their babies to work and park them in the dedicated Biba crèche, even chose the bands that played on the shop floor, and in the Rainbow Room. Samantha Conti, WWD, 26 Sep. 2024 The results of a scoring exercise, leaked in an email to ITV News last year, showed the shop floor roles scored slightly higher on average with 453 points, compared to 447 for warehouse workers. Emma Burleigh, Fortune Europe, 9 Sep. 2024 On the shop floor, all staff are required to dress in head-to-toe black to match its counters and store interiors. Hikmat Mohammed, WWD, 8 Aug. 2024 The Wichita facility has a working shop floor that uses data to drive actions. Rick Barrett, Journal Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2024

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“Shop floor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shop%20floor. Accessed 2 Dec. 2024.

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