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Models, Systems and Reality: Knowledge Generation and Strategies for Systems Design

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Book cover Shop Floor Control — A Systems Perspective

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Most prevalent approaches to the problems of shop floor control tend to focus on the scheduling problem. Thereby an organizational problem in the real world of manufacturing is replaced by a mathematical problem within a modeled world. To enable sustainable and holistic solutions the question remains on how knowledge can be generated for systems design.

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Scherer, E. (1998). Models, Systems and Reality: Knowledge Generation and Strategies for Systems Design. In: Scherer, E. (eds) Shop Floor Control — A Systems Perspective. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60313-6_4

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