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  1. Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Peihua Gu

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  1. IUL-Inst, Tech Univ Dortmund IUL-Inst, Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

    Sami Chatti

  2. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Tecnologie Industriali Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Milan, Italy

    Tullio Tolio

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  1. University of Twente, Faculty of Engineering Technology Laboratory of Design, Production and Management, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Eric Lutters

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Gu, P. (2018). Product Architecture. In: Chatti, S., Tolio, T. (eds) CIRP Encyclopedia of Production Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35950-7_6463-4

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