A high-mix appliance line with espresso, filter, bean-to-cup, and pod coffee machine variants.
Four appliance variants with shared common work and model-specific assemblies.
Four main workstations, inter-station buffers, common testing, and a packing step.
Which products overload which stations, and whether the line remains balanced as the mix changes.
Coffee machines are a good example of a product family where common work and variant-specific work share the same line. Espresso, pod, filter, and bean-to-cup models create different station loads.
Use this template to test how product mix affects bottlenecks, whether buffers are needed, and whether work should be redistributed between stations.
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