Novel Complexity Indicator of Manufacturing Process Chains and Its Relations to Indirect Complexity Indicators

Table 1

Mutual comparison of static complexity methods.

Static complexity metrics	Number of machines	Number of parts	Number of operations	Flexible routings	Workplace organization	Part scheduling
Metric by Deshmukh				x	x	x
Metric by Frizelle					x	x
Metric by Zhang						x
Proposed metric