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Most manufacturing facilities are setup to produce more than a single product. Even in the case of single product facilities, if the product visits a workstation more than once with different processing times at each visit, then the workstation sees the equivalent of multiple products. Such revisiting production schemes, called reentrant flow systems, are prevalent in the semiconductor industry where it is not unusual for a product to be routed to the same machine group for distinct processing 20 or more times.
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Curry, G.L., Feldman, R.M. (2011). Multiple Product Factory Models. In: Manufacturing Systems Modeling and Analysis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16618-1_6
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