Chaotic behavior in manufacturing systems

Transition of interarrival time patterns between automated and manual configurations of assembly systems

“…Systems of the considered type have been shown to have chaotic cell dynamics [1]. An underlying assumption of these approaches normally is that the material flow is considered continuous, which allows the application of methods such as autocorrelation and Fourier transform.…”

Manufacturing systems complexity: An assessment of manufacturing performance indicators unpredictability

“…Phase portraits and time delay plots are utilized for the examination of a simple manufacturing system's scheduling [18,19,23]. The adaptability to the demand of a steel construction industry [20] and the chaotic behavior of the production system [21] are investigated with the help of the Lyapunov exponents and the bifurcation diagrams that capture a system's sensitivity to its initial conditions. Other approaches attempt to combine more than one method in order to address complexity.…”

Modeling and simulation of supply network evolution based on complex adaptive system and fitness landscape

“…Besides system dynamics, other simulation methods such as discrete-event simulation, artificial intelligence etc. has been employed to model the dynamical behavior (Alfaro & Sepulveda, 2006;Holmstrom & Hameri, 1999) and possible improvements of SNs (Holweg & Bicheno, 2002). However, most of these studies were still based on the assumption that the SN structure was deterministic and stable.…”