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Special Issue: Human-centric production and logistics system design and management: Transitioning from Industry 4.0 to Industry 5.0
Guest Editors: Eric H. Grosse, Fabio Sgarbossa, Cecilia Berlin and W. Patrick Neumann

Multi-objective collaborative assembly line design problem with the optimisation of ergonomics and economics

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Pages 7830-7845 | Received 16 Mar 2022, Accepted 05 Nov 2022, Published online: 28 Dec 2022

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