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Dedicated Assembly Cells

An Alternate To Mixed Model Production 

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How dedicated cells are an alternate to mixed model assembly lines and preferable in many ways.

Toyota probably used Mixed Model Assembly lines because their large Detroit-style lines were already in place. It may have seemed like a natural and easy solution to the problem of upstream demand smoothing.

But there is another method for providing smooth demand: Final Assembly Cells. In this approach, the assembly line is broken down into multiple, smaller workcells. Each workcell produces a single model or, perhaps, several models with a high degree of part commonality.

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