abstract
- © 2016 The Author(s). Manufacturing complexity increases as a result of product configuration, and even though different manufacturing complexity measures have been developed, none of them seem to put attention to the blocking effect a product¿s bill-of-material imposes to the process flow. The following paper extends the research presented by the authors in a previous paper, where a set of entropic formulations were developed to act as an increase/decrease indicator of a manufacturing system¿s performance parameters. Our findings show that the improvements to the entropic formulations provide results that are closer to the system¿s performance parameters final values.