Week 2: Flow lines, Mathematical models, Storage Buffers

Flowlines in Manufacturing

Flow line manufacturing is used to manufacture high volumes of products with high production rates and low costs. Separate dedicated flow line is created for each product. Dedicated machines are used to manufacture the products at high production rates. These machines are generally expensive. A large volume of the products must be produced in order to justify the cost of such expensive machines. Flow line manufacturing is most suitable to manufacture high volumes of products continuously. Flow line manufacturing is used in such industries where raw materials are fed at one end and finished products are produced continuously at the other end. Thus flow line manufacturing is utilized in mass production industries.

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