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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Intelligent Manufacturing Systems Center, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada

    Hoda A. ElMaraghy

  2. Canada Research Chair in Manufacturing Systems, Intelligent Manufacturing Systems Centre, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada

    Hoda A. ElMaraghy

  3. Department of Industrial Engineering, Fraunhofer Joint Laboratory of Excellence on Advanced Production Technology (Fh-J_LEAPT Naples), University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

    Alessandra Caggiano

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Correspondence to Hoda A. ElMaraghy .

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  1. National Engineering School of Monastir (ENIM), University of Monastir, Monastir, Tunisia

    Sami Chatti

  2. Mechanical Engineering, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, QC, Canada

    Luc Laperrière

  3. Institute for Machine Tools and Industrial Management (iwb), Technical University of Munich (TUM), Garching, Germany

    Gunther Reinhart

  4. ITIA Institute of Industrial Technologies and Automation, CNR National Research Council, Milan, Italy

    Tullio Tolio

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ElMaraghy, H.A., Caggiano, A. (2019). Flexible Manufacturing System. In: Chatti, S., Laperrière, L., Reinhart, G., Tolio, T. (eds) CIRP Encyclopedia of Production Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53120-4_6554

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