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of our machines, the average duration of the transi-
tion time for operations of one setup and the times of
releasing buckets into the production. To gain more
general results, we want to investigate further sim-
ulation parameters like different setup distributions,
more divers variants of our production model and dy-
namic generated product structures. We are also look-
ing forward to apply our approach to real world sce-
narios of the companies we are cooperating with.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors acknowledge the financial support by
the German Federal Ministry of Education and Re-
search within the funding program ”Forschung an
Fachhochschulen” (contract number: 13FH133PX8).
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