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Design of an automated guided vehicle-based material handling system for a flexible manufacturing system

B. MAHADEVAN Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Industrial Management Division, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, 600036, India.
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T. T. NARENDRAN Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Industrial Management Division, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, 600036, India.
Pages 1611-1622 | Received 01 Feb 1990, Published online: 30 Mar 2007

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