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Highly capable process equipment that is easy to maintain (and therefore available to produce whenever needed), allows quick changeovers, is easy to move and is designed to be installed in small increments of capacity, in order to facilitate labor and capital linearity. See : Capital Linearity and Labor Linearity. Compare with : Monuments.
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