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Not too long ago, production environments were laid out according to one of two conceptual schemes, namely the jobshop (typical of low volume, high product variety environments) and the transfer line (typical of high volume, extremely low product variety environments).
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Moodie, C.L., Drolet, J., Ho, YC., Warren, G.M.H. (1994). Cell design strategies for efficient material handling. In: Tanchoco, J.M.A. (eds) Material Flow Systems in Manufacturing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2498-4_3
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