Manufacturing is the application of labor, tools, machines, chemical and biological processing, to an original raw material by changing its physical and geometrical char-acteristics, in order to make finished products. Since the first industrial revolution,to accommodate the large-scale production, tremendous changes have happened to manufacturing through the innovations of technology, organization, management, trans-portation and communication. This work first reviews the high-volume low-mix process by focusing on the quantity production, transfer line and single model assembly line. Then, it reviews the high-volume high-mix process. For such a process type, mixed/multi model assembly line is usually adopted. Hence, two main decisions on them, i.e., balancing and, sequencing are reviewed. Thereafter, it discusses the low-volume high-mix process in detail. Then, technology gap and future work is discussed, and at last, conclusions are given.
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