Analysing the effect of flexibility on manufacturing systems performance

BAYKASOĞLU A., ÖZBAKIR L.

JOURNAL OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT, cilt.19, sa.2, ss.172-193, 2008 (ESCI) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 19 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2008
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1108/17410380810847909
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.172-193
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Flexibility manufacturing systems, Manufacturing systems, Performance levels, Production scheduling, Experimental design, EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM, TABU SEARCH, SHOP, OPTIMIZATION, MODEL
  • Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

Purpose - In today's very competitive, dynamic and unpredictable manufacturing environments it is critical to improve manufacturing performance in order to be able to compete. Responsiveness and agility become important characteristics of manufacturing systems and organizations. Manufacturing systems must be designed optimally by taking into account responsiveness and agility related measures in order to improve effectiveness and performance. One of the important enablers of performance improvement is flexibility. It is a known fact that flexibility has a positive effect on the manufacturing system performance if it is properly utilized by the control system (usually scheduling). However, the relationship between flexibility and manufacturing system performance through scheduling is not entirely explored in the previous literature. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of process plan and machine flexibilities on the scheduling performance of manufacturing job-shops.