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The management of most manufacturing operations poses tremendously complex problems. Nowhere is this more true than in batch manufacturing. At any one time, a typical batch manufacturer may have several hundred batches flowing through dozens of work centres. Coordinating personnel and machines to get the right product to the right customer at the right time, in the right quantity while also achieving acceptable standards of manufacture at reasonable cost is a mammoth task.
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O’Grady, P.J. (1988). Traditional Manufacturing Management. In: Putting the Just-In-Time Philosophy into Practice. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7810-5_2
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