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Quantifying opportunity costs associated with adding manufacturing flexibility

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Pages 1183-1194 | Received 01 Apr 1989, Published online: 30 Mar 2007
 

SUMMARY

Opportunity costs associated with adding manufacturing flexibility are one of the most important manufacturing performance measures of factory automation. Opportunity costs consist of the nonconventional costs of set-up, part waiting, equipment idle and inventory, which measure product, process, equipment and demand flexibility, respectively. The nonconventional costs are estimated using a computer simulation. An example shows the cost estimation procedure.

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