Dropbox

{
  "id": "MLC-T-IND-001886",
  "term": "Dropbox",
  "field": "Industrial and trades",
  "definition": "A physical container or chute where materials, documents, or finished parts are deposited for collection, transfer, or temporary storage in a manufacturing or logistics environment. It facilitates asynchronous hand-offs between different workstations, departments, or shifts without direct person-to-person interaction. Dropboxes are often positioned at the end of a conveyor line or next to a machine cell to accumulate output before it is moved to the next process step.",
  "subject": "Manufacturing",
  "translations": {
    "de": "Farbschachtel",
    "es": "dropbox",
    "fr": "boîte de navettes"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/industrial/dropbox/"
}