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A structure for sequencing robot activities in machine tending applications

WILBERT E. WILHELM Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 43210-1271, U.S.A.
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SUBHASH C. SARIN Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, 24061, U.S.A.
Pages 47-64 | Received 01 Jul 1983, Published online: 24 Oct 2007

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