Boutique manufacturing

Boutique manufacturing is a method used for the custom production of certain components in limited quantities in small, specialized facilities.

[1] Products produced this way often include ceramics, furniture, amplifiers, yachts, boats, leather goods or watches and jewellery among others.

In industrial countries, boutique manufacturing is being selected generally for high class goods in upper price levels and only for single products or small batches.

The workflow organization of a boutique manufacturing entity can be a mixture of both – elements of jobbing or batch production, however involving higher standardization than the first one.

However, with this method, manufacturing of larger quantities of unified products is not possible at reasonable costs.