Flexibility assessment platform for the factory of the future

In order to assign an important role to flexibility, companies must first find a way to quantitatively measure flexibility. In this work, we attempt to address this problem and provide industrial users with a holistic platform capable of quantitatively assessing flexibility. The solution presented has two main objectives. Firstly, to provide engineers with appropriate measures in order to successfully gauge flexibility quantitatively. Secondly, to integrate the provided measures into a flexibility assessment platform by taking advantage of modern information technologies. This will result in the formation of a flexibility assessment platform, expected to become a useful asset to production engineers and stakeholders.