One-piece flow production is when parts are made one at a time and passed on to the next process. Among the benefits of one-piece flow are 1) the quick detection of defects to prevent a large batch of defects, 2) short production lead times, 3) reduced material and inventory costs, and 4) design of equipment and workstations of minimal size.
Moving the product through each operation (both in manufacturing and in the office) as a single part, never handled in batches.
Moving parts through a process in batches of one.
A manufacturing philosophy which supports the movement of product from one workstation to the next, one piece at a time, without allowing inventory to build up in between.
One-piece flow or continuous flow processing is a concept means that items are processed and moved directly from one processing step to the next, one piece at a time. One-piece flow helps to maximum utilization of resources, shorten lead times, identify problems and communication between operations.
A practice where product is moved from one workstation to the next one piece at a time without allowing inventory to build up in-between steps.
A concept that items are processed directly from one step to the next, one unit at a time. This helps to shorten lead times and lines of communication, thus more quickly identifying problems.
