By the time comic books came of age in the 1940s, the huge volume of work demanded by publishers had encouraged an assembly-line process, dividing the creative process into distinct tasks: writer, penciller, letterer, inker, and colorist.

It was a complex assembly-line process, requiring 20 minutes per doll, that involved opening the package, undressing the doll, fixing the arms, then redressing and repacking the dolls.

Automotive manufacturing consists of many steps of production, including building and attaching parts of the vehicle during the assembly-line process.

Mr. Bush, who has presided over more than 100 executions, has never expressed a doubt about the assembly-line process by which Texas courts dispatch people to its execution chamber.

I recognize no American style in literature, in dance, in music, even in assembly-line processes, which does not bear the mark of the American Negro.

New Yorkers, it turned out, had little patience for the company's vaunted assembly-line process, which churns out overstuffed turkey club sandwiches in about three minutes.

They produced their food in an assembly-line process, which is now standard in the fast food industry.

Tourism is now the world's No. 1 industry, and much of travel seems like an assembly-line process: automated car rental, last-minute E-fares, global A.T.M. card access.

Pipelining organizes data retrieval into a sort of assembly-line process.