Chapter | 11 299 many advantages for end users. These advantages will contain decreased capital expenditure for buying a machine instead of more than one, each with its unique control systems, tool arrangements, and in a number of cases fixtures. Moreover, it will remove the transmission interrupt between machines and provide decreased adjustment and component supervision. For the producer of machine tools, the main advantage will be the manufacturing of a generic machine system that can be configured to include one or more processing processes without the demand for units designed and produced in a separate way [44] Schuh et al. stated that the general purpose of hybrid production is “1 + 1 = 3,” and it has one or more of the benefits listed as follows [45] : 1. improving the current capability (such as a higher material removal rate),
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