Answer:
Flexible manufacturing is a technique for reducing inventories to a minimum by arranging for production components to be delivered to the production facility only when it is about to be used.
Explanation:
- The inventories that stay loaded with the material then become unusable for long periods of time until the material gets used up for production.
- The technique of flexible manufacturing can be used to keep the inventories manageable and have room left for crucial operations at any given time.