Mixed-model production systems are widely adopted by manufacturing companies in a broad range of industries where customers demand a variety of models of the same product, Monden [22], Sawik [149], and Boysen et al. [150]. Automotive and electronics industries are two well-known examples with well-established presence of different options that create a tremendous variety of models of a single product. At the same time the demand for a particular model is often insufficient to warrant dedicated production resources for the model, instead the resources have to be shared by a whole collection of models. Thus, operating such mixed-model manufacturing systems efficiently is a challenging problem that has been widely studied in the operations management literature particularly with the goal to reduce their inherent variability.
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(2009). Smoothing and Batching. In: Proportional Optimization and Fairness. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 127. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-87719-8_11
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