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1. Definitions and concepts
1.1 Notion of multi-purpose or flexible workshop
Batch plants traditionally produce high value-added products, in the range of 5 to 500 e/kg
year-round operation, leading to low equipment volumes and high labour costs;
or operate for a few months a year: the result is higher volumes and more bearable labor costs, but investments that are harder to recoup;
product lifetimes are highly variable,...
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ARENA (Modeling Corporation) provides a library of predefined, fairly simple objects, which the user can then use to build his or her own model, giving great flexibility. The resulting simulator can be coupled with external modules written in C or FORTRAN.
WITNESS (Lanner Group ltd.) offers an extensive library of predefined objects for rapid...
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