We conceive that manufacturing leadtime can be reduced to a certain extent if alternate routing capability-routing flexibility is utilized.
Thus, we need define the routing flexibility and evaluate its contribution to the AMS performance.
Routing flexibility should be convertible to monerary terms for direct use in managerial decision making.
Opportunity cost associated with adding routing flexibility is one of the important manufacturing performance measure of factory automation.
The opportunity cost is estimated using a computer simulation.
An example shows the cost estimation procedure.
