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A framework for the economic evaluation of production system and product design alternatives for robot assembly

LAYEK ABDEL-MALEK Department of Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, Rutgers University, P.O. Box 909, Piscataway, New Jersey, 08854, U.S.A.
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THOMAS O. BOUCHER Department of Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, Rutgers University, P.O. Box 909, Piscataway, New Jersey, 08854, U.S.A.
Pages 197-207 | Received 01 Jan 1984, Published online: 24 Oct 2007

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ABRAHAM MEHREZ, O. FELIX OFFODILE & BYUNG-HYUK AHN. (1995) A decision analysis view of the effect of robot repeatability on profit. IIE Transactions 27:1, pages 60-71.
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Layek Abdel-Malek. (1987) Robot's economic repeatability. Engineering Costs and Production Economics 12:1-4, pages 93-97.
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