Flow Production

Aka continuous production or mass production, flow production enables products to be created in a series of steps.

Large amounts of goods produced and is highly capital intensive (machinery, automation)
Cars are massed produced for a large market using flow production.

Advantages of Flow Production

• Economies of scale
  
• Automated production lines save time and money
  
• Quality systems can be built into the production
  
  

Disadvantages of Flow Production

• Standard product produced (opposite of customised)
  
  
• High set-up costs of automated lines
  
  
• Repetitive and boring work
  
• Long production runs may produce more than is needed