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Selection of a Threshold Value Based on Material Handling Cost in Machine-Component Grouping

Hamid Seifoddini Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53201
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Philip M. Wolfe Senior Member IIE Gurrett Turbine Engine Company, Phoenix, Arizona, 85010
Pages 266-270 | Received 01 Oct 1985, Published online: 09 Jul 2007

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