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The ordered product is customized, meeting the design requirements of an individual, organization or business. [2] Such production orders can be generated manually, or through inventory/production management programs. [1] BTO is the oldest style of order fulfillment and is the most appropriate approach used for highly customized or low volume ...
Ready-to-assemble furniture has roots that extend back a long way, as cabinetmakers have been making furniture that is easy to disassemble for transport for centuries. The New American Cyclopaedia of 1859 listed the assembly of furniture as an "American invention" [ 2 ] that emphasized ease of transport, but this claim is rather vague.
Final Assembly Schedule, often abbreviated as FAS and sometimes referred to as finishing schedule, is a schedule of end items to finish the product for specific customer orders in a make to order (MTO) or assemble-to-order environment.
Ikea products may be attractive and cleverly designed, but they can also be notoriously hard to assemble. Experts say these are the hardest.
An Airbus A321 on final assembly line 3 in the Airbus Hamburg-Finkenwerder plant Hyundai's car assembly line. An assembly line, often called progressive assembly, is a manufacturing process where the unfinished product moves in a direct line from workstation to workstation, with parts added in sequence until the final product is completed.
Engineers don’t always follow a smooth flow from step to step even in ordinary manufacturing. Most manufacturing design decisions tends to be highly iterative. [3] It is common to create a design that meets customer approval, test it, make changes to meet specifications, and resubmit at certain stages or milestones in order for approval to proceed to the next stage.
As business becomes more responsive to unique consumer tastes and derivative products grow to meet the unique configurations, BOM management can become unmanageable. For manufacturers, a bill of materials (BOM) is a critical product information record that lists the raw materials, assemblies, components, parts and the quantities of each needed ...
A modern automobile assembly line. Mass production, also known as flow production, series production, series manufacture, or continuous production, is the production of substantial amounts of standardized products in a constant flow, including and especially on assembly lines.