Definition of sub-assembly in English:
sub-assembly
nounPlural sub-assemblies
A unit assembled separately but designed to be incorporated with other units into a larger manufactured product.
Example sentencesExamples
- Because the whole firing mechanism housing can be simply removed from the frame by hand, it's both easily maintained and repaired in the field and as a separate sub-assembly, vastly simplifies production of the pistol itself.
- The remainder of the Hawk order was sent in broken-down sub-assemblies and these were put together by the French.
- You send a demand signal to your tier one suppliers that indicates your need for X number of sub-assemblies by a given date.
- Among the unusual features of the Gliwice plant are its ‘fishbone’ body shop layout, which has two sub-assembly lines feeding into the main line, and the T-shaped general assembly building.
- Many of the smaller sub-assemblies passed through this door from other parts of the station.
- The sub-assemblies are integrated into the transmission case on the main line to produce the finished transmission.
- What we do outsource is the sub-assembly of components and sub-assemblies themselves.
- The factory provides a range of job skills for people in mailing, sign-making, production work, sub-assembly, warehousing, distribution, and picking and packing.
- Ford has brought some sub-assembly back into the plant.
- Modifications were made to the assembly plant to facilitate the sub-assembly of batteries and surrounding electronic control units, including space and equipment to do testing.
- Jerry Brown, chief operating officer, sat down with them to discuss the risks and rewards of manufacturing sub-assemblies for a major overseas company.
- Intelligent fastening technology has the potential to be the fastening protocol for all automotive sub-assemblies.
- They share structures, platform, parts and sub-assemblies, yet their separate bodies make them Peugeots, Citroëns and Toyotas.
- The instrument panel sub-assembly was consolidated into one area, and bumper painting for both Honda and Acura is now done in a new 80,000 sq. ft. addition.
- The foreign buyers were on the look out for individual components and also sub-assemblies.
- Some components may need specific testing; for instance, electronic sub-assemblies for electromagnetic compatibility.
- He said the way to win new business is to make complex, highly-engineered modules that range from sub-assemblies to vehicles that are completely developed, engineered and assembled by Magna Steyr.
- Chrysler has invested in a new subassembly line for Pacifica to weld engine box, underbody sub-assembly and body sides.
- He said of individual components suppliers that it would be useful to have local companies supplying sub-assemblies, tuners and digital control units, as well as heatsinks.
- Screws and sub-assemblies have given way to ‘clip on’ modules.