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Perceived production complexity – understanding more than parts of a system

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  • Sandra Mattsson
  • Malin Tarrar
  • Åsa Fast-Berglund

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To successfully manage today’s complex production systems it is essential to study operators’ perception of the system. The paper presents perceived production complexity assessed at seven manufacturing companies with the CompleXity Index (CXI) method. While other methods have measured product variants, layout, work content, tools and information items, CXI combines them into three areas. These three complexity areas (Station design, Work variance and Disturbance handling) help to create an understanding of the complex system by visualising how they contribute to complexity, and show the need to support the operators’ ability to handle the varying work.

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  • Sandra Mattsson & Malin Tarrar & Åsa Fast-Berglund, 2016. "Perceived production complexity – understanding more than parts of a system," International Journal of Production Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 54(20), pages 6008-6016, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:tprsxx:v:54:y:2016:i:20:p:6008-6016
    DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2016.1154210
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    1. Germán Herrera Vidal & Jairo R. Coronado-Hernández & Claudia Minnaard, 2023. "Measuring manufacturing system complexity: a literature review," Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Springer, vol. 34(7), pages 2865-2888, October.
    2. Yu Wang & Fuxiang Chang & Yuanjie Wu & Ziran Hu & Lihui Li & Pengyu Li & Pu Lang & Shouwen Yao, 2022. "Multi-Kinects fusion for full-body tracking in virtual reality-aided assembly simulation," International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, , vol. 18(5), pages 15501329221, May.

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