The growing demands on the health system to adapt to constant change has led to investment in health workforce planning agencies and approaches. Health workforce planning approaches focusing on identifying, predicting and modelling workforce supply and demand are criticised as being simplistic and not contributing to system-level resiliency. Alternative evidence- and needs-based health workforc...

A multi-objective simulated annealing (MOSA) algorithm is described in this chapter to solve a real maintenance workforce scheduling problem (MWSP) aimed at simultaneously minimizing the workforce cost and maximizing the equipment availability. Heavy industry maintenance facilities at aircraft service centres, railroad yards and steel companies must contend with scheduling Preventive Maintenanc...

In this paper. the basic framework and algorithms of a decision support system are discussed. which enhance process and capacity planning at a large repair shop. The research is strongly motivated by experiences in a project carried out at a dockyard, which performs repair, overhaul and modification programs for various classes of navy ships. We outline the basic requirements placed upon order ...

in this paper, we consider a multi-site production planning problem subject to uncertainty in demand and workforce expenses. in our new mathematical model, we presented a production planning system considering failure in rework and breakdown. we also survey human workforce allocation and its expenses which are considered uncertain due to some tradeoff between company’s benefits and workforce :u...

This paper addresses the production and maintenance problem of multiple-product manufacturing system satisfying several random demands corresponding to every product. The goal of this study is to establish an economical production planning followed by an optimal maintenance strategy, taking into account the influence of the multiple-product production rate on the materiel degradation. Analytica...

Abstract The safety of operations is vital in any process the oil and gas sector, especially given that increasingly more hydrocarbon reserves are discovered non-conventional remote Arctic locations. Safety systems designed as a part complex IT system for control. design these conducted form an engineering project. This research presents decision-making framework to facilitate formulating clear...

INTRODUCTION Oman's recent experience in health workforce development may be viewed against the backdrop of the situation just three or four decades ago, when it had just a few physicians and nurses (mostly expatriate). All workforce categories in Oman have grown substantially over the last two decades. Increased self-reliance was achieved despite substantial growth in workforce stocks. Stocks ...

In industrial environment, data generated during equipment maintenance and monitoring activities has become increasingly overwhelming. Data mining presents an opportunity to increase significantly the rate at which the volume of data can be turned into useful information. This paper presents an architecture designed to gather data generated in industrial units on their maintenance activities, a...

Equipment maintenance is one of the essential tasks for manufacturing industries. There have been a number of information systems developed to cope with equipment malfunctions. Most fault diagnosis systems are applications of expert systems which have two drawbacks with regard to knowledge acquisition. One is the lack of knowledge continuity; the other is the limited source of knowledge being i...