An overview of performance measures in reconfigurable manufacturing system

Abstract

Reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMS) are considered as manufacturing systems that are capable of providing the exact functionality and capacity as and when desired. Unpredictable demand, requirement of variety of products, rapid development in product and process technology has forced the manufacturing systems to adapt the changing requirements efficiently. There are various performance measures like ramp-up time, cost, reliability, availability, lead time, reconfiguration time etc. that affects performance of the reconfiguration manufacturing system. This paper focuses on the performance measures and the way to find the best configuration for reconfigurable manufacturing system. © 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.