Research Article

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

Table 16

Comparison of indirect indicators with static complexity measure.

Layout #1Static complexity Production line balancing rateNumber of intercell flowsNumber of intracell flows

MPC147,8 bits92,4%15244
MPC250,7 bits78,7%0262
MPC353,9 bits78,2%8326
MPC444,8 bits85,6%6141
MPC547,1 bits50,7%14217