A state‐time model to measure the reconfigurability of manufacturing areas – key to performance

Looks at reconfigurability – the ability of organizations to become self‐driven – as a challenge to manufacturing success factors. States that reconfigurability is the main characteristic of recent manufacturing approaches and thus it is important to be able to measure it. Presents a case for the measurement of reconfigurability where change processes are analyzed and the prerequisites of reconfigurablity are pointed out. Concludes that self‐organized and autonomous organizations do not use scheduling in the classical sense and instead fulfil objectives as soon as they are set.