ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT Assembly supply chain (ASC) structures and their modeling can be effectively used when planning assembly sequences in terms of mass customized manufacturing. Graph theory is commonly applied for this purpose. Generally, assembly sequence planning helps layout designers, among others, to increase productivity and to decrease complexity. On the other hand, supply chains are required to be highly flexible to obtain short periods of order realization and high product diversity. Especially, reducing network complexity and finding alternative ASCs has recently been at the
5.1 Introduction ............................................................................................. 92 5.2 Modeling of assembly supply chain structures ................................. 93
5.2.1 Generating all possible assembly supply chain structures..... 93 5.2.2 Complexity mitigation in assembly supply chain
structures ..................................................................................... 94 5.2.3 Approaches to the complexity of assembly supply chain
structures ..................................................................................... 97 5.2.3.1 Supply chain length ..................................................... 97 5.2.3.2 Vertex degree index Ivd ................................................ 97 5.2.3.3 Axiomatic design-based complexity SDC ................ 99
5.2.4 Comparison of approaches to structural complexity .......... 101 5.3 Modeling assembly supply chain structures for mass
customization ........................................................................................ 102 5.4 Conclusions ............................................................................................ 104 References ........................................................................................................ 105 Appendix 5.1 ................................................................................................... 107 Appendix 5.2 ................................................................................................... 109 Appendix 5.3 ....................................................................................................110 Appendix 5.4 ....................................................................................................111
center of managers’ attentions, as ASC systems are becoming increasingly complex. This chapter provides a framework to model alternative ASC structures, which are subsequently analyzed using selected structural complexity indicators. Later, we outline the initial components of mass customized assembly and present the modeling of available product configurations on the hypothetical model of a labeled graph.
