How to Use the factory floor in a Sentence

the factory floor

noun
  • Speed is everything on the factory floor.
    — Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Each of the upper three floors has a balcony overlooking the factory floor.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Fights over transparency date back to the timekeeper on the factory floor.
    — Fred Turner, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023
  • And how will Corsair, fresh off the factory floor, perform under fire?
    — Colin Demarest, Axios, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Limp also made a change by moving more of the company’s headcount to the factory floor.
    — Michael Sheetz, CNBC, 5 Oct. 2024
  • The mood on the factory floor was unmistakable.
    — Footwear News, 12 Sep. 2025
  • That's when Hana's mother went into labor on the factory floor.
    — Lesley Stahl, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2026
  • It could be seen on the factory floor below on Sunday and should be ready later this spring, Limp said.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Coders work on top of modular office pods set up in the middle of the factory floor, an easy solution for desk space.
    — Patrick Sisson, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Tesla reasoned that sidestepping the drying process would cut its energy costs and free up the factory floor space.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Above the factory floor, the big bosses determined our production goals for the day, as usual.
    — Literary Hub, 8 June 2026
  • Eight weeks up, records on the screens, a four-year high on the factory floor — and the most depressed consumer in the history of the survey.
    — Benzinga, Freep.com, 23 May 2026
  • 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
  • Supervisors and managers on the factory floor, however, tend to be male.
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 23 May 2025
  • By the 1920s, moviegoers had already become well-schooled in how the sausage got made on the factory floor.
    — Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 20 Apr. 2025
  • During busy periods at Tesla, Musk was known for sleeping on the factory floor.
    — Zoë Schiffer, WIRED, 29 Jan. 2025
  • There’s also abundant engine protection that comes standard from the factory floor.
    — New Atlas, 18 Jan. 2026
  • That strategy is already visible on the factory floor.
    — Deena Theresa, Interesting Engineering, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Leverage digital technologies that help on the factory floor.
    — Kerrie Jordan, Forbes, 30 Oct. 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
  • But on the factory floor, the real goal is reliability.
    — Norbert Jung, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Now, rapid advances in artificial intelligence are taking humanoids from the lab to the factory floor.
    — Marc Lieberman, CBS News, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Family tradition is at the core of the company’s identity — not just on the leadership side of things, but also on the factory floor.
    — Joseph Strauss, Sun Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • Overlooking the factory floor is a command center with a wall-size, live dashboard providing a holistic view of the operations.
    — Rick Barrett, Journal Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Almost every workplace is facing disruption as AI reshapes how jobs are done, from the boardroom to the factory floor.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Business Tech News #5 – AI assistants join the factory floor.
    — Gene Marks, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Announced on November 19, it is built to handle the complexity of the factory floor.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • This allows the retail giant to track goods with unprecedented precision from the factory floor to the storefront, the companies said in a statement.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 9 Apr. 2026

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