| Article ID: | iaor1989221 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 40 |
| Issue: | 6 |
| Start Page Number: | 603 |
| End Page Number: | 609 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 1989 |
| Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
| Authors: | Brill P.H., Mandelbaum M. |
| Keywords: | measurement |
This paper presents examples of recently developed measures of flexibility and adaptivity for machines and groups of machines in a manufacturing setting. The flexibility measures depend on the set of tasks to be done relative to a background task set, the relative importance of the tasks and the efficiency of machines in doing them. The measures of adaptivity relate flexibility measures in different situations, usually at different points in time.