Flow Shop

Production environment in which products move through a largely common sequence of process steps.

Examples

01The plant runs as a flow shop: every gearbox goes through turning, hobbing, hardening, grinding and assembly in the same order.
02In a flow shop, the planner checks capacity at the bottleneck, hardening, before adding new orders to the plan.
03Because the flow shop has a fixed sequence, the daily meeting can focus on keeping hardening busy and protecting it from starvation.