Flow ManufacturingCharacteristics

• Linear manufacturing

  • Dedicated assembly line per product family
  • Process one unit at a time, not by batch
  • Reduces variability and promotes consistency
  • Benefits:
    • Increased quality
    • Reduced WIP, queues, bottlenecks
    • Smoothes demand fluctuations

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