Performance Evaluation of Layout Designs by Throughput Rate and Operational Complexity

Even though several researches have focused on exploration of mutual relations between batch size and throughput, there is still relevant research to be done and considerations to be made as organizational problems in manufacturing are not irreversible. That is because practitioners want to know how to optimize input parameters to reach acceptable objectives. The main goal of this paper is to show easily-applicable procedure to analyse mutual relations between batch-size, throughput rate and complexity via a simulation. The exploration has been performed by an analysis of batch siześ impact on performance of production processes organized into two different basic designs - product and process layouts. Moreover, impact of process parameter changes on complexity of production process will be treated.