Intrigued, I looked up the wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_line) entry for some context... but it doesn't seem that anachronistic, really.
I think the concept and the term came into being 'round the same time - so either both are anachronistic or neither are (don't know when you're writing for).
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