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Production line

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Line-Flow production processes are preestablished, occur in serial or linear manner, and are deticated to making one type of product. Line-Flow produciton are inflexible, becasue they are typically deticated to manufacturing one type of product.

This idea has been made a standard in industry by Ford Motor Company.

For example, a beer brewery uses line production in its bottling process as the bottles are (1) sterilized, (2) filled with beer, (3) crowned, (4) inspected, (5) labeled, and (6) inspected again in a finite predefined process.


See Mass production, Assembly line.

Last updated: 06-01-2005 23:33:32
Last updated: 09-12-2005 02:39:13