Flexible Automation and Integrated Manufacturing 1999

ISBN Print: 978-1-56700-133-4

AN ATTRIBUTE SCHEME OF MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS FLEXIBILITY

DOI: 10.1615/FAIM1999.120
pages 127-139

Résumé

Although manufacturing flexibility has been specified as being different types and dimensions and some researchers have taken an operational viewpoint for their measurement approaches, there is still confusion and contradictions in the literature about what manufacturing flexibility is. This research argues that could be the attributes incorporated in the flexibility concept have not yet been clarified. Identifying the attributes embodied in the flexibility concept will be helpful in finding a solution to this deadlocked situation in the literature.