job shop

job shop (plural job shops)

1. A business or facility specializing in the manufacture or fabrication of parts in relatively small quantities, produced to the specifications or requirements supplied by the customer.
2. (production management) A production unit that processes jobs each of which requires processing at multiple workstations, in any order, which processing may vary in time taken at each workstation.
3. An agency that supplies technical personnel usually on short-term temporary contracts.

• (supplier of technical personnel on temporary basis): body shop

• batch processing