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As competition among firms is being based more and more on the level of service, there is a great interest in using a measure of flexibility to indicate a firm's capability to respond to customer demands. Entropy is proposed as a measure of flexibility for manufacturing operations. The properties of entropy that make it a suitable measure of flexibility are outlined. A computer simulation of a job...
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