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An objective function to address production sequencing with minimal tooling replacements

P. R. McMullen Babcock Graduate School of Management, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27109, USACorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 2465-2478 | Received 01 Sep 2005, Published online: 22 Feb 2007

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