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This chapter highlights the major themes of the book. It first overviews the recent development in designing manufacturing systems (MSs) and the trends towards the factories of the future. The chapter emphasises the need for new MS design with focusing on the distinguishing features of reconfigurable manufacturing system (RMS), which is an alternative MS for the factory of the future. Three principal steps of designing an RMS are defined as (1) the design strategy, (2) the reconfiguration link (RL) and (3) the tactical design phase. The research scope, the research objectives and the methodologies used for an RMS design along with the book structure are presented.
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Abdi, M.R., Labib, A.W., Delavari Edalat, F., Abdi, A. (2018). Introduction to the Book. In: Integrated Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems and Smart Value Chain. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76846-5_1
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