Abstract
The current global competition requires companies to follow a demand driven, product-oriented manufacturing approach, on which manufacturing complexity increases as a result of product configuration. Even though different manufacturing complexity measures have been developed, none of them seem to notice the blocking effect a product's BOM imposes on the process flow. The main original contribution of this paper is the development of an entropic formulation to address this last issue. Its validity and usefulness is put to the test via a discrete-event simulation study of a job shop. Our findings show that the entropic formulation act as a fairly good trend indicator of the system's performance parameters increase/decrease. Future research will focus on developing correcting factors so the entropic formulation can be used as an estimator of the final values.
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