To succeed in a global business environment, the competitiveness of both products and manufacturing is inevitable. Therefore, the leanness of entire supply chains is considered necessary. A 1/N machine that was consistently synchronized with the assembly process was developed and introduced in a factory to alleviate bottlenecks in machining processes.

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