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During the last decade (from the late 1970s to the beginning of the 1990s), manufacturing systems have significantly changed. Their function and performance have altered in a period of rapid development, mainly as a result of the application of the techniques of computer science. The new systems are termed either flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) or computer- integrated manufacturing (CIM). The advance of flexible manufacturing and its related technologies has been accompanied by a number of related developments, such as flexible manufacturing of a global network type, CIM incorporating personnel functions, skill-based manufacturing, and compact flexible manufacturing cells (FMC). These all have notable influences on the system configuration and operational technologies of flexible manufacturing: perhaps as a result, there is some confusion about their terminology. A number of differing nomenclatures are used (such as FMC, FMS, flexible or factory automation (FA), CIM and enterprise automation (EA), for the same fundamental technology.
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Ito, Y. (1993). What is Human-Intelligence-Based Manufacturing?. In: Ito, Y. (eds) Human-Intelligence-Based Manufacturing. Advanced Manufacturing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2014-8_1
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