Workcell-based assembly versus assembly lines
Process changes lead to quicker,
reliable, flexible product flow
By Richard J. Schonberger
Pondering a half-decade of developments in industrial and systems engineering, what readily comes to mind are
procedural methodologies, such as Six Sigma and Lean. Well known, too, but vastly underappreciated, is cellular
engineering of production processes, which is not a procedure but rather a direct process change in itself.
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