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Funding of this research has been provided by the Shanghai Postdoctoral Scientific Program (No. 12R21413500) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41101454). And also, we appreciate the engineers of our cooperative company for the constructive advice during the program development.

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    Beibei Fan, Xiaomei Hu & Tao Yu

  2. Institute of Contemporary Manufacturing Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China

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Fan, B., Qi, G., Hu, X. et al. A network methodology for structure-oriented modular product platform planning. J Intell Manuf 26, 553–570 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10845-013-0815-1

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