Towards a Relationship Between the Routing Flexibility and the Dynamic Complexity of a Manufacturing System

Abstract This paper is a fIfst approach to study the relation between flexibility and dynamic complexity. A new measure of dynamic complexity of the manufacturing system is proposed, by the use of Lyapunov fractal dimension. This variable has been related to a measure of the routing flexibility of the system. The simulation system is composed of two machines, two parts with two and three operations. By extensive simulations of that system a non linear relationship has been found.