A Model For Assessment and Integration of Product’s Manufacturing and Assembly Complexity

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.