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A “goodness test” for operational measures of manufacturing flexibility

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After more than a decade of research on measurement of manufacturing flexibility, it is now recognized that measures of flexibility are, by their very nature, user- and/or situation-specific. In such an environment, a set of principles that could be used by practitioners to test the goodness of metrics which they devise (to suit the requirements of their particular application) will be most useful. This article fulfills the above stated need by developing such a test. This test is then applied to some flexibility measures suggested in recent studies, and their strengths and/or weaknesses are pointed out.

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  1. Michael G. DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, L8S 4M4, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

    Diwakar Gupta

  2. Faculty of Administrative Studies, York University, M3J 1P3, North York, Ontario, Canada

    John A. Buzacott

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Gupta, D., Buzacott, J.A. A “goodness test” for operational measures of manufacturing flexibility. Int J Flex Manuf Syst 8, 233–245 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00403126

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