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Models of Leveling for Lean Manufacturing Systems

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Lean manufacturing had its first worldwide appearance in 1990 with a documentation [21] about state of the art car manufacturing, sales and logistics systems for various Japanese, American and European car manufacturers and their suppliers.

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Furmans, K., Veit, M. (2013). Models of Leveling for Lean Manufacturing Systems. In: Smith, J., Tan, B. (eds) Handbook of Stochastic Models and Analysis of Manufacturing System Operations. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 192. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6777-9_4

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