Abstract:-In recent years, many process industries have been forced to drastically increase their product variety and adopt mass customization production strategies. Many of them have found that traditional bill of material (BOM) processing systems do not sufficiently support the maintenance of the very large amounts of data (concerned with product structure) demanded by these new production policies. Due to the use of BOM technology within the framework of integrated information systems, there is a demand for both (i)… Show more
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