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Okay. You decided how much capacity you needed. Right. You chose the location. You determine where you wanted the product or regional facility. And then you design that facility. Now it's time to choose the process of how you will produce your products. In this video, I will talk about four different types of process selections. So when it comes to process selection, first, going back to square one. What is it that you're producing your product or service that is going to determine what should be your process selection? Two things you want to consider when it comes to process selection volume. How much of it are you producing? Are you producing in high volume, moderate or low volume? And then to Variety, what is the degree of variation of your products? How differentiated are the products? Are you producing? Are they very unique or are they consistently the same? And that's going to determine what process selection you should choose. so first we have what we call continuous flow. Now, continuous flow, in most instances there is no product variation. You're producing the exact same product over and over and over again at high volume. So if you have a product and you're producing high volume of this product and it's the exact same product, you want to use a continuous flow process selection. And the reason being is because you're not going to change anything. You can simply press, go and consistently produce that product over and over and over again. So let's think about cars, for example. If we're producing the exact same car, no variations to this car. We can use continuous flow to produce that car. We start with press. Go and let the manufacturing system do do its thing. That would be an example of continuous flow. Now, another example is the process of refining oil is also continuous flow, but this one can get a little bit tricky. Reason being is oil is filtered by temperature and you can get five different products per say during your oil refining process because of the temperature of the oil. And because of that, it'll make you think that maybe it's produced in batches or maybe assembly line because it seems like there is a degree of variation. However, the process continuously flow, so this would be considered continuous flow process selection. Now let's look at the next one assembly line. This too is high volume production, but instead of no variation, there is minimal or little variation. So again, if we're producing the same car, that's continuous flow. But if we're producing the same car with slight modifications because of an upgraded model or a premium features of the sound system or something of that nature, that would still be assembly line, not continuous flow because of those slight variations that have to take place. And then next, we have batch flow. Batch flow is usually can be done in high volume, but less moderate volume. And there is more variation or some variation more than assembly line. And in this case, a key thing to remember when it comes to batch flow is you're producing in batches and then you stop, change the equipment and then you produce another batch. So if we continue with this analogy of producing cars, maybe we'll get to the point to where we're producing the same car. But then this version of the car is so unique that we have to change the equipment over, make some modifications, and then start producing again because there is a stop and in equipment changeover, we go from assembly line to actually producing in batches. So this would be an example of batch flow simply because of that equipment changeover. And that's one of the drawbacks of producing in batches, because there's going to be a time where you have to stop your manufacturing to actually modify your manufacturing equipment to produce the next batch because of the degree of variation of your products. And then next we have here is Chop Shop. This is where you don't typically produce at a high volume because your product variation is very high. So if we continue with this analogy of producing cars, This is where you produce custom made products, unique products, usually for your customers. Now you can imagine producing in the job shop or getting something done in a job shop setting is going to be much more expensive. This is why it cost more for us to get things customized and custom jewelry and things like that because modifications have to be made for our liking. So we have to pay more for those types of products and services. But if it's a continuous flow, the exact same thing is usually much less expensive to produce those products. also continuous flow, assembly line and batch flow are more specific to product oriented layouts and jobs. Shop is more specific to a process oriented layout. So if you already have your layout chosen, you can then narrow your process selection based on the type of layout that you've already selected. So key takeaways when it comes to producing your product, you want to think about two things How much are you producing and the degree of variation? If you're producing in high volume with no variation, you want to go with continuous flow. If you're producing in high volume with little variation, it may be best to go with assembly line. If you're producing in moderate to high volume with more variation and equipment changeovers, then you want to produce in batches. And if you have a very unique way of doing things, customized products and you're producing in low volume, you want to choose a job shop, process selection.