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Ali-Кhusein and Urquhart, “The Concept of Sustainable Manufacturing Maturity System (SMMS)”, Journal of Machine and Computing, vol.1, no.2, pp. 106-114, April 2021. doi: 10.53759/7669/jmc202101012.
