What does "slow manufacturing" refer to? Explain some more, and perhaps there is help to get.
I think it refers to the need to preserve the artisan labor, not everything is done on automatic machines. Yesterday I listen that Italy's main export is luxury items, and these items are made with slow manufacturing.
For mainly automated production there is a lot to be found (such as scientific journals on production and logistics), but I suspect there is much, much less for specialized production, where artisans are involved, UNLESS the time and other resources that are required for this mainly manual labour can be estimated somehow. If you can estimate these resource requirements, then you can include those "processes" into a mathematical model. At least it sounds possible.
I actually found eight hits for the word "artisan" on the perhaps most well-known production economics journal, Intrenational Journal of Production Economics. It is found here:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09255273
One of the papers talked about disabled people in production, and another on ceramics. Have a look!
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