Analysts predict impending shortages in the health care workforce, yet wages for healthcare workers already account for over half of U.S. health expenditures. It is thus increasinglyimportant to adequately plan to meet health workforce demand at reasonable cost. Using infinitelinear programming methodology, we propose an infinite-horizon model for health workforceplanning in...

PURPOSE The specialty of radiation oncology has experienced significant workforce planning challenges in many countries. Our purpose was to develop and validate a workforce-planning model that would forecast the balance between supply of, and demand for, radiation oncologists in Canada over a minimum 10-year time frame, to identify the model parameters that most influenced this balance, and to ...

The growing complexity of manufacturing calls for new approaches to support the human workforce with situation-aware information and tools which in consequence ease the process of understanding and applying work related knowledge. With this paper we introduce a theoretical model for a systematic information transfer between assistance system and worker. It defines assistance objectives and revi...

Abstract Job creation in renewable is among the most significant social impacts of higher penetration to energy mix, but it also poses a challenge for countries adapt changing work landscape amidst transition. Hence mapping distribution and projecting employment coming years ASEAN will be crucial as would support policy ramifications, job market, economy. This research adopted data scenarios tr...

Aluminum extrusion die manufacturing is a critical task for productive improvement and increasing potential of competition in aluminum extrusion industry. It causes to meet the efficiency not only consistent quality but also time and production cost reduction. Die manufacturing consists first of die design and process planning in order to make a die for extruding the customer’s requirement prod...

Although AI planning techniques can poten tially be useful in several manufacturing do mains this potential remains largely unreal ized In order to adapt AI planning techniques to manufacturing it is important to develop more realistic and robust ways to address issues important to manufacturing engineers Fur thermore by investigating such issues AI re searchers may be able to discover principl...

The availability of the machine is one of the most important assumptions on many scheduling problems under any situation. However, in most actual life manufacturing settings a machine can be unavailable for many reasons, such as unforeseen scheduled preventive. In this paper, we study scheduling flowshops problem under ’condition based’ maintenance constraints to minimize the expected makespan ...

Virtual cellular manufacturing systems (VCMS) have come into existence, replacing traditional cellular manufacturing systems (CMS), to meet highly dynamic production conditions in terms of demand, processing times, product mix and processing sequence. While cell formation phase of VCMS has been dealt quite voluminously, worker assignments phase has gained momentum recently after researchers sta...

BACKGROUND Health workforce planning is important in ensuring that the recruitment, training and deployment of health workers are conducted in the most efficient way possible. However, in many developing countries, human resources for health data are limited, inconsistent, out-dated, or unavailable. Consequently, policy-makers are unable to use reliable data to make informed decisions about the...