Instead, items will be assembled by teams of a few workers, who will do all the assembly operations.

The losers are likely to be in industries that have been moving assembly operations to lower-wage countries.

But few, if any, manufacturers tried to keep assembly operations running.

Job creation, in fact, is considered to be the primary contribution of the assembly operations to the domestic economy.

On the other hand, joining two or more parts is an assembly operation.

The rest of the assembly operation would also be quite simple.

In 1990 the company moved its assembly operations back to Long Island.

The original intention was to hive off assembly operations to sub-contractors.

If need be, they say, they will make products faster or contract out some assembly operations.

There is absolutely no final assembly operation of finished lorries, only component manufacture.