A new perspective on measuring entropic complexity in manufacturing systems

The reopening of business systems caused by the effects of the pandemic has forced decision-makers to look for quick and efficient mechanisms to achieve adequate levels of production and sales. For this reason, it is necessary to promote improvements from the processes and operations that allow agile and less complex systems.The objective of this research is to propose a new entropic metric for measuring complexity in manufacturing systems, providing its validation at each stage for a better procedural understanding. Methodologically, a literature review was carried out, followed by a detailed proposal of the new metric and finally a case study comparing it with classical and extended metrics. The results allow to solve the shortcomings found in these methods and show a better performance in the measurement.