Manufacturing Systems Configuration Complexity

ElMaraghy, Hoda A.; Kuzgunkaya, Onur; Urbanic, Jill

doi:10.1016/s0007-8506(07)60141-3

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“…Managing the complexity of the design knowledge is one of the most challenging issues in the conceptual design of complex systems (ElMaraghy et al, 2005;SE Handbook Working Group, 2011). Particularly, it is challenging to represent and structure the design knowledge in a proper artefact.…”

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A Modelling Framework to Design Executable Logical Architecture of Engineering Systems

Abdoli¹,

Kara²

2017

MAS

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Modern production, logistic and assembly systems comprise of a considerable number of processes which operate by using diverse types of resources. Conceptual design of these systems has become more complicated because of the large scale and multi-disciplinary essence of their design knowledge. This paper proposes a modelling framework to support the conceptual design of such systems. The framework employs the principles of system engineering to fulfil the necessity of having a multi-disciplinary approach for the design of such systems. The framework realizes the essence of holistic design by modelling the structural and behavioral aspects of a system in one design artefact. Object Oriented (OO) method is employed to facilitate the complexity of holistic analysis and yielding proper logics for system architecting. This paper proposes incorporating the OO analyzing semantics into Finite State Machine formalism. Therefore, the logical architecture will be established in an FSM platform. In return, the resultant artefact can stand as an executable Meta-Architecture such that design alternatives are its instances. Moreover, the Meta-Architecture enables simulation of the alternatives which serve their early validation. Accordingly, this approach opens avenues regarding incorporation of the Meta-Architecture with computational and analyzing methods which can significantly support the decision making in the conceptual design stage.

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“…This structure lends these systems to complex system class from the design perspective (Bar-Yam, 2002;ElMaraghy, Kuzgunkaya, & Urbanic, 2005;Koo, 2005;Schuh, Monostori, Csáji, & Döring, 2008;Wolfram, 1985). Hence, the targeted systems can be called 'Complex Engineering Systems' (CESs).…”

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A Modelling Framework to Design Executable Logical Architecture of Engineering Systems

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Kara²

2017

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“…They based on machine complexity, buffer type complexity, and material handling system complexity as a structural complexity although they can be considered as an operational or dynamical complexity. Product, process, and operational complexity in modeling and assessment of manufacturing complexity were introduced Urbanic 2003, 2004;ElMaraghy et al 2005). Each assessment was evaluated independently.…”

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“…They used these complexities to study the impact effect on a manufacturing plant performance. A coding system of machines, buffers, and material handling equipment to measure complexity based on time-independent complexity (static or structural complexity) of those major components was classified and designed by (ElMaraghy et al 2005). The structural (static) complexity measure to evaluate the complexity in mixed assembly lines was used (Hu et al 2008).…”

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Complexity Analysis of Industrial Organizations Based on a Perspective of Systems Engineering Analysts

Garbie

Shikdar

2011

Jou. Eng. Res.

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Complexity in industrial organizations became more difficult and complex to be solved and it needs more attention from academicians and technicians. For these reasons, complexity in industrial organizations represents a new challenge in the next decades. Until now, analysis of industrial organizations complexity is still remaining a research topic of immense international interest and they require reduction in their complexity. In this paper, analysis of complexity in industrial organizations is shown based on the perspective of systems engineering analyst. In this perspective, analysis of complexity was divided into different levels and these levels were defined as complexity levels. A framework of analyzing these levels was proposed and suggested based on the complexity in industrial organizations. This analysis was divided into four main issues: industrial system vision, industrial system structure, industrial system operating, and industrial system evaluating. This analysis shows that the complexity of industrial organizations is still an ill-structured and a multi-dimensional problem.

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“…Zhu et al [12] propose a dynamic discrete optimization model using the entropy to minimize the complexity in an assembling system using the entropy. ElMaraghy et al [13] present a measure of static complexity based on entropy to determine the amount and variety of information related to the machines, equipment, inventories, and material handling. In Modrak and Marton [14] the entropy is used to measure the static complexity and they utilized it in the design of the structure of a supply chain.…”

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Proposal of Two Measures of Complexity Based on Lempel-Ziv for Dynamic Systems: An Application for Manufacturing Systems

Alfaro

Vargas

Fuertes

et al. 2018

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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The measure of complexity of Lempel-Ziv (LZC) is used for the analysis of time series generated by dynamic systems with the objective of determining its complexity. This work measures LZC of different series coming from periodic functions, probabilistic functions, and chaotic systems. Later, these metrics of complexity are applied to the average of the number of parts in the waiting line in a manufacturing workshop. The results demonstrate the efficiency of the LZC to establish the level of the dynamic behavior of the manufacturing systems, through the time series.

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Manufacturing Systems Configuration Complexity

Cited by 106 publications

References 6 publications

A Modelling Framework to Design Executable Logical Architecture of Engineering Systems

A Modelling Framework to Design Executable Logical Architecture of Engineering Systems

Complexity Analysis of Industrial Organizations Based on a Perspective of Systems Engineering Analysts

Proposal of Two Measures of Complexity Based on Lempel-Ziv for Dynamic Systems: An Application for Manufacturing Systems

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