Understanding the different types of manufacturing processes are also important to answer engineers as it helps us to better describe or design a specific process. the six types of manufacturing processes are as follows: repetitive, discrete, additive, job shop, continuous process, batch process.
· Repetitive process is production lines that repeat the process by producing the same item.
· Discrete process covers a few different setups and changeovers in order to produce products that are either alike or different that means that the time in which the set-up and tear-down happens is not uniform and therefore leads to more waste in the system.
· Job shops are not production lines rather they have production areas in which assembly of the product happens and this usually happens with dedicated labor and therefore only moves to automated equipment in demand for the product increases so therefore job shops are usually on a smaller scale.
· Continuous process is are related to repetitive ones except they handle different materials, batch process is I related to discrete and job shop ones but usually involve raw materials.
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