Companies choose manufacturing processes -- such as job order, batch process, assembly line and continuous process -- based in part on the level of product individualization allowed. Manufacturers use ...

AI fundamentally shifts the lean manufacturing paradigm by transforming lean systems from reactive to proactive. For example, machine learning algorithms can process vast datasets.

Batch processing, or batch production, is a scaled-down version of assembly line production. Products are produced in groups instead of in continuous streams as they are on assembly lines. However, ...