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The aim of this papers is to review concepts and techniques involved in Flexible Manufacturing Systems for Furniture Industry under low cost perspectives. Those techniques, justified for large size companies,may be also implemented on medium and small size companies if and only if limited investment is required. So, the availability of low cost components and the establishment of adequate design objectives are considered vital at this point. A CAD/CAM industrial system implemented on a single processing center is presented in order to illustrate the different issues of low cost in CIM. Comments on a BRITE EEC-Project, which is under development, about the implementation of CIM tools for the Furniture Industry are also included at the end of the paper.
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Tornero, J., Albertos, P., Borras, M. (1991). Low Cost in CIM for the Furniture Industry. In: Tzafestas, S.G. (eds) Engineering Systems with Intelligence. Microprocessor-Based and Intelligent Systems Engineering, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2560-4_70
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