Abstract:
In the modern world of competition, having wide variety of products is main
challenge, the manufacturing industry is facing nowadays. They mainly focus on
customization of products, which increases the complexity in a lot of many ways in
manufacturing system. Thus, to tackle this challenge a novel metric is suggested in this work,
which mainly focus on product complexity. This includes product manufacturing complexity
and products assembly complexity and integrating both complexities to have a combined
complexity of a product. The manufacturing complexity is assessed on the basis of nine
attributes, which play a significant role in manufacturing of a product and assembly
complexity is assessed on the basis of previous work, which focus om handling and insertion
attributes. This complexity metric is then proved by applying on an industrial case study
which give the perfect results. So, the suggested complexity metric can serve as a tool for
decision making during the design selection of a product or comparison between different
products. Thus, measuring the complexity is helpful in reduction of complexity which in
result reduces production time and production cost.
