Dynamic Comprehensive Evaluation of Manufacturing Capability for a Job Shop

With the development of information technology, many new manufacturing models, e.g. virtual manufacturing, cloud manufacturing, have emerged to enhance interoperability and collaboration among the manufacturing enterprises. As a dominate factor for production performance, manufacturing capability has attract great attention and needs to be well analyzed and measured to assist the decision making in manufacturing process. A number of works have been carried out for measuring manufacturing capability. However, most of them modeled manufacturing capability in a static manner, without considering the dynamic characteristics as well as the online and real-time collected manufacturing operation data. In this paper, we analyze the components of manufacturing capability and propose a dynamic comprehensive evaluation method of manufacturing capability for a job shop, using subjective and objective analysis. A case study is presented and the results demonstrate that it is effective and flexible to evaluate the manufacturing capability for a job shop.