Workforce reconfiguration strategies in manufacturing systems: a state of the art

SE Hashemi-Petroodi, A Dolgui, S Kovalev… - … Journal of Production …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This paper provides a literature review and an analysis of the studies related to workforce
reconfiguration strategies as a part of workforce planning for various production …

Multi-skilling in scheduling problems: A review on models, methods and applications

B Afshar-Nadjafi - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Multi-skilling provides an organization with the ability to arrange its workers to meet the
certain needs for several skills. This paper reviews the literature on scheduling problems …

A multi-skilled worker assignment problem in seru production systems considering the worker heterogeneity

J Lian, CG Liu, WJ Li, Y Yin - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
The flexibility of production systems is becoming more and more important for manufacturers
facing various changes. As an effective way to increase the flexibility in a short time with a …

New integration of preventive maintenance and production planning with cell formation and group scheduling for dynamic cellular manufacturing systems

M Alimian, V Ghezavati… - Journal of Manufacturing …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a new integration method for cell formation, group scheduling,
production, and preventive maintenance (PM) planning problems in a dynamic cellular …

A bi-objective model in sustainable dynamic cell formation problem with skill-based worker assignment

F Niakan, A Baboli, T Moyaux… - Journal of Manufacturing …, 2016 - Elsevier
The most recent revolution in industry (Industrial Revolution 4.0) requires increased
flexibility, agility and efficiency in the use of production equipment. The Dynamic Cellular …

Solving cell formation and task scheduling in cellular manufacturing system by discrete bacteria foraging algorithm

C Liu, J Wang, JYT Leung, K Li - International Journal of …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
We consider a joint decision model of cell formation and task scheduling in cellular
manufacturing system under dual-resource constrained (DRC) setting. On one hand …

Worker assignment and production planning with learning and forgetting in manufacturing cells by hybrid bacteria foraging algorithm

C Liu, J Wang, JYT Leung - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2016 - Elsevier
We consider a joint decision model of worker assignment and production planning in a
dynamic cellular manufacturing system of fiber connector manufacturing industry. On one …

Integrated bacteria foraging algorithm for cellular manufacturing in supply chain considering facility transfer and production planning

C Liu, J Wang, JYT Leung - Applied Soft Computing, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper presents an integrated model of facility transfer and production planning in
dynamic cellular manufacturing based supply chain. On one hand, transferring facilities to …

Multi-objective dynamic cell formation problem: A stochastic programming approach

AM Zohrevand, H Rafiei, AH Zohrevand - Computers & Industrial …, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper addresses dynamic cell formation problem (DCFP) which has been explored
vastly for several years. Although a considerable body of literature in this filed, two …

Balancing stochastic parallel assembly lines

U Özcan - Computers & Operations Research, 2018 - Elsevier
In industrial systems, efficient design of production units is important for productivity. An
assembly line is a special type of industrial systems, and it has been widely used in various …