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Abstract The purpose of this research is to design optimal boundary control to solve demand tracking problems for manufacturing systems represented at the factory level in terms of conservation laws coupled with ordinary differential equations. The factory level is modeled as a network with arcs describing specific production policies, e.g., velocity, processing rate, number of machines, and each vertex represents the buffer zone. Different interconnection topologies that correspond to dispersing and merging networks are considered. Numerical solutions are performed using direct and indirect methods.