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Can the benefits of computer-integrated manufacturing be realized in your manufacturing application? One question to ask is “Are the parts to be manufactured in the low to mid-volume range?” Here, the flexibility of the system to manufacture a variety of parts allows the aggregation of all suitable part types to reach the mid-volume range, even though the yearly production volume of some parts may be low.
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Hunt, V.D. (1989). Application of CIM. In: Computer Integrated Manufacturing Handbook. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1577-3_3
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