Abstract: A manufacturing plant for manufacturing rigid bodies comprised of a plurality of parts to be assembled by at least two operators having hierarchical skill levels selected from alignment types ranging from Or to P selected from an alignment transformation consisting of Or, Oa, Br, Ba, S, L and P, comprising an alignment unit having at least three work stations, each of said work stations being capable of having associated therewith dynamically occurring manufacturing operations selected from one or more of the dynamically occurring alignment-based transformations of manufacturing operations identified as alignment types Or, Oa, Br, Ba, S, L and P.

Abstract: A system for continuous manufacture of apparel using continuous first-in-first-out work-in-process queues. The system is comprised of a dual queue where manufacture article components and article subassemblies can be performed simultaneously at a series of work centers all located around a center staging area.