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The successful manufacturing operation must focus outside of the walls of the manufacturing facility to accommodate a global supply chain, disaggregation of enterprise production resources, and customer focused product distribution. I presentsome examples of current and anticipated methods of operation and discuss the use evolutionary computing to enable their implementation.
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Fulkerson, B. (1997). The Key Steps to Achieve Mass Customization. In: Dasgupta, D., Michalewicz, Z. (eds) Evolutionary Algorithms in Engineering Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03423-1_30
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