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Production Systems Engineering: Review and Recent Developments

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Production Systems Engineering (PSE) is an emerging branch of Engineering intended to investigate fundamental laws that govern production systems and utilize them for the purposes of analysis, design, and continuous improvement.

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  1. Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA

    Jingshan Li

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Semyon M. Meerkov

  3. Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA

    Liang Zhang

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Li, J., Meerkov, S.M., Zhang, L. (2013). Production Systems Engineering: Review and Recent Developments. In: Smith, J., Tan, B. (eds) Handbook of Stochastic Models and Analysis of Manufacturing System Operations. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 192. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6777-9_6

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