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If we look at the evolution steps of factories in the last 20 years, we basically find different factory concepts and production concepts in every decade depending on different goals and criteria (Fig. 1).

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Wiendahl, HP., Hernández, R. (2006). The Transformable Factory – Strategies, Methods and Examples. In: Dashchenko, A.I. (eds) Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems and Transformable Factories. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-29397-3_20

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