Making individual products that are bespoke (fit each customer's needs)

Making different varieties of identical products. The production process is broken into stages

Workers will be able to work at a very fast pace

Workers will get bored

Productivity (output per worker per hour) will be high, so unit costs will be low.

Time is wasted cleaning the machinery between switching to a different flavour/make/ model

Workers are highly skilled and command high wages

Cost per unit is low so you can sell the product at a low price

Set up costs are high due to having to buy the automated production lines

Customers have a choice of products but are products are not expensive