Making Approaches Between Flow Manufacturing and Mass Customization Industries (original) (raw)

The current paper describes the essentials of Flow Manufacturing and Mass Customization models in a common framework. Flow Manufacturing is a well-known production system that is capable to banish the waste and enhance the product quality. It is successfully implemented by many modern industries. Mass Customization is an uprising business model, which acquires further investigation in order to form the appropriate methods of decreasing the high manufacturing expenditures. Is Flow Manufacturing Model capable to support Mass Customization Model for modern industries in a dynamic market? This paper tries to connect these two models and set future scientific directives.