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To solve the problem that it is short of quantitative ways, when the project of structural optimization on production system is evaluated and entropic model exists in the present study of systemic order degree, aging–quality entropy model with operable characteristic are developed based on an information-entropic approach. In an empirical study, taking typical parts in a job shop as object, the paper analyzes these parts go through the different production structure on the same process routing before and after the job shop is actualized cellular manufacturing. Furthermore, the order degree under the two different conditions is finally calculated by using the models of aging–quality entropy and order degree. As a result, this quantitative way of evaluating the orderliness of production structure is validated well and extends application area of this entropic model.
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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under the Grant No. 60474077.
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Zhang, Z., Wang, Z. Empirical study on orderliness evaluation of production system based on aging–quality entropy. Prod. Eng. Res. Devel. 3, 95–101 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11740-008-0129-x
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