A generic approach to measuring the machine flexibility of manufacturing systems |
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Authors: | MIM Wahab Desheng Wu Chi-Guhn Lee |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5B 2K3;2. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3G8 |
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Abstract: | Despite extensive studies on the flexibility of manufacturing systems over the last two decades, a unified measurement approach has not been developed. To this end, we integrate two domains of machine flexibility models from the literature: operational capability-based machine flexibility and time and cost-based machine flexibility, and propose a generic model to measure machine flexibility with consideration of uncertainties in the system. Furthermore, in our approach we include part characteristics such as processing time and processing cost, the number of operations that a machine can perform, and uncertainties in demand and machine-part assignment. The resulting framework to measure machine flexibility is a two-stage model: a super efficiency Data Envelopment Analysis Model and a flexibility model. The results show that the marginal system machine flexibility does not always increase as the number of operations that a machine can perform increases, and the system machine flexibility depends on the demand uncertainty. |
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Keywords: | Machine flexibility Manufacturing systems Data envelopment analysis Super efficiency |
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