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We examine the problem of sequencing the placements of multiple part types for a computer controlled placement machine. The problem is modeled as a collection of interdependent traveling salesman problems. A heuristic based on a space filling curve is shown to be easy to compute and quite effective. Numerical experiments show that on problems of realistic size our heuristics show very little divergence...