Novel Complexity Indicator of Manufacturing Process Chains and Its Relations to Indirect Complexity Indicators

Vladimir Modrak and Zuzana Soltysova

Complexity, 2017, vol. 2017, 1-15

Abstract:

Manufacturing systems can be considered as a network of machines/workstations, where parts are produced in flow shop or job shop environment, respectively. Such network of machines/workstations can be depicted as a graph, with machines as nodes and material flow between the nodes as links. The aim of this paper is to use sequences of operations and machine network to measure static complexity of manufacturing processes. In this order existing approaches to measure the static complexity of manufacturing systems are analyzed and subsequently compared. For this purpose, analyzed competitive complexity indicators were tested on two different manufacturing layout examples. A subsequent analysis showed relevant potential of the proposed method.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1155/2017/9102824

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