Automated production station and related methods

A method of mass producing different products in an automated production station having a plurality of part-processing devices, comprising:

• a) identifying a first workpiece received in the production station;
• b) selecting control parameters associated with the first workpiece identified in (a);
• c) electronically synchronizing the part-processing devices based on the control parameters selected in (b) to perform coordinated operations on the first workpiece for producing a first product;
• d) identifying a second workpiece received in the production station, the second workpiece shaped differently from the first workpiece;
• e) selecting control parameters associated with the second workpiece identified in (d);
• f) electronically synchronizing the part-processing devices based on the control parameters selected in (e) to perform coordinated operations on the second workpiece for producing a second product;
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• g) repeating (a) to (c) to produce a plurality of the first products and repeating (d) to (f) to produce a plurality of the second products interchangeably with the first products in a continuous mass production process.