DefinePK

Abstract

Networked manufacturing systems are becoming increasingly complex. One of the major challenges at the early configuration design stage is to make a decision about a suitable networked manufacturing structure that will satisfy the production functional requirements and will make managerial tasks simpler and more cost effective. An experimental approach for assessing the structural complexity of supply chain networks is presented in this paper. Its main scope is to present a methodical approach to generate assembly supply chain structural models and subsequently to test and evaluate their structural complexity properties.