process worker

plural process workers

1. An unskilled or semiskilled worker who is responsible for running processing machinery in a factory.

   The knowledge worker may have a supervisor, but he or she is never supervised in the same way that a manual or process worker is supervised.

   2017, David I. Ben-Tovim, Process Redesign for Health Care Using Lean Thinking, →ISBN

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   The term control panel refers to the instrumentation console in a central control room through which process information is communicated to the process worker and via which the worker changes the state of the process.

   2010, CCPS (Center for Chemical Process Safety), Guidelines for Preventing Human Error in Process Safety, →ISBN, page 121

   The process worker, explains Gorz ([19] 111ff.) citing Ilnox, is the by-product of computerization, which represents a new interface between the production process and the worker. The skilled and unskilled worker of the production line will cease to have any physical interaction with the product, but will now focus mainly on controlling and maintaining the production process.

   2016, Sabina Jeschke, Christian Brecher, Houbing Song, Industrial Internet of Things: Cybermanufacturing Systems, →ISBN, page 563

   For example, the tradesman may decide to abandon his trade meantime because he can make a better living as a process worker or even as a labourer.

   2017, Paul Lafitte, Social Structure and Personality in the Factory, →ISBN, page 78