Flow Manufacturing in a Job Shop? --- Oh Yes
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Introduction In a world that is rapidly moving towards faster, higher quality production of products, the focus has been on manufacturers that produce products in a repetitive or process mode of operation. The good news is that progress has been tremendous in those companies. The bad news is that in the job shops of the world, it is virtually business as usual. Manufacturing in the United States is normally done with two distinct approaches: Scenic Manufacturing or Expressway Manufacturing.
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