Investigation into the Impact of Various Flexibility Types on Manufacturing Performance

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  • マシーン・フレキシビリティ, ルーティング・フレキシビリティおよびボリューム・フレキシビリティが製造のパフォーマンスに与える影響について
  • マシーン フレキシビリティ ルーティング フレキシビリティ オヨビ ボリューム フレキシビリティ ガ セイゾウ ノ パフォーマンス ニ アタエル エイキョウ ニ ツイテ

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Evolving from cost, quality and delivery time, flexibility is becoming a key dimension of a firm's competitive priorities. The need to explicitly consider flexibility makes it necessary to develop measurements for various types of manufacturing flexibility and analyze their strategic and/or economic value in improving the performance of manufacturing systems. This paper provides investigative insights into the impact of machine flexibility, routing flexibility and volume flexibility on manufacturing performance in a production system which consists of part fabrication process and an assembly line. A variety of experiments are conducted on the simulation model under the condition that urgent orders and machine breakdown cannot be regarded as being negligible, when the three types of flexibilities are introduced alone or simultaneously. The experimental results provide management with a guideline for priority or determining the scope or scale of such activities as standardization in design, process/operations improvement, and investment in equipment, toos, fixtures, etc.

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