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A simulation comparison of group technology with traditional job shop manufacturing

BARBARA B. FLYNN Department of Quantitative Business Analysis, Louisiana State University, School of Business, 3182 CEBA Building, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70803-6316, U.S.A.
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F. ROBERT JACOBS Operations and Systems Management, Indiana University, Graduate School of Business, BUS 565, Tenth and Fee Lane, Bloomington, Indiana, 47405, U.S.A.
Pages 1171-1192 | Received 01 Nov 1985, Published online: 22 Oct 2007

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