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Most of the factories implement hybrid organizations that include one or more elements of the well known integrated organizations (craft production, mass production, just-in-time). This paper presents a new intelligent system that helps to conceive the appropriate hybrid organization for a factory. The suggested system is a knowledge base connected to a set of system dynamics models with neural network structure, named intelligent reference models. The knowledge base verifies if the logics of the current factory organization matches a reference model. If yes, a simulation by optimization of the reference model allows to conceive the appropriate organization for the factory.
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Macedo, J., Usano, R.R. (1994). An intelligent system to identify the appropriate organization for a factory. In: Karagiannis, D. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 856. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58435-8_184
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