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ONE PIECE FLOW

One Piece Flow – The process of producing one piece at a time; it is the opposite of batch production. With one piece flow there is much shorter processing time. Additionally, there is reduced handling and space required for each workspace. As opposed to batch, the next process can determine exactly when or how problems occur. In addition, we can switch production to different items with minimum interruption to production flow.

Learn more about one piece flow, Contract Manufacturing - Changes and our Myers Case Study.