@ ADDITION to Agile Manufacturing: This flexibility is to be achieved through people, equipment, computer hardware and software, and advanced communications systems. As an example, it has been predicted that the automotive industry could configure and build a car in three days, and that, eventually, the traditional assembly line will be replaced by a system in which nearly custom-made car will be produced by connecting individual modules.
(Kalpakjian S., Schmid S.R., Manufacturing Engineering and Technology, page 37-38)
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