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Original Articles

Types of flexibility in a single-machine production system

Pages 1891-1899 | Received 01 Dec 1988, Published online: 03 Apr 2007
 

Abstract

Flexibility is one of the most important aspects of production systems. In this paper, different approaches to this subject are summarized and it is argued that various aspects of flexibility can be unified in a hierarchical structure. A simple, one-machine system is used to obtain the 'volume flexibility' from the 'machine flexibility' in the context of the hierarchical structure of flexibility types.

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