The program is going along well — we are on schedule. The very first test airplane is on the assembly line now.

Honda opened its first assembly line in Lincoln in November 2001.

Doing a TV show, you're on an assembly line and it's as cut and dry as that. There are some shows that are exceptions. There are producers that want really special things.

I was running an assembly line designed to build memory chips. I saw the microprocessor as a bloody nuisance.

The official line on FCS is that it is on budget and on schedule. But that may be more a reflection of its nebulous performance criteria than any real progress.

The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.