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Imponderabilities characterize the contemporary market developments, and most of them are beyond the influence of the producers [7]. They account for 20–30% of the production planning at present, and future increases cannot be excluded. The annual changes in the percentage of the registrations of petrol-powered and diesel-powered vehicles in Germany give an example (Fig. 1).

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Heisel, U., Meitzner, M. (2006). Progress in Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems. In: Dashchenko, A.I. (eds) Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems and Transformable Factories. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-29397-3_4

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