Abstract
Nowadays, manufacturing enterprises face a highly turbulent market in which they must be capable of responding rapidly to market changes while fully exploiting resources. A reconfigurable manufacturing enterprise is one that can change the arrangement of an enterprise’s components. These components could be machines, materials handling equipment, or similar items. The objective of this chapter is to identify the major elements of reconfiguration regarding manufacturing enterprises and to assess the index of sustainability for reconfiguration based on the current benchmarking values of performance measures. In order to achieve this objective, the manufacturing enterprises should be managed to respond quickly and cost-effectively.
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Garbie, I. (2016). Reconfiguration Manufacturing Enterprises. In: Sustainability in Manufacturing Enterprises. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29306-6_5
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