Discrete manufacturing
The following are characteristics of discrete manufacturing:
Order-based production (production in individual production orders)
Product changes frequently
Varying sequence of work centers (complex routings)
Semi-finished products often put into interim storage
Components staged with reference to order
Status processing
Completion confirmation (backflush) for individual operations or orders
Order-based cost accounting
Builds, assembles, produces in low volume with high complexity or high volume of low complexity
Makes products
Raw materials are most often measured in pieces
Products are usually scaled for an output of one (1)
Only has one product output
Waste can only be accounted for on raw material lines
