The Workforce Scheduling and Routing Problem (WSRP) is a combinatorial optimisation problem that involves scheduling and routing of workforce. Tackling this type of problem often requires handling a considerable number of requirements, including customers and workers preferences while minimising both operational costs and travelling distance. This study seeks to determine effective combinations...

This paper aims at proposing reference models to integrate the predictive maintenance in manufacturing system. This integration is based on the functioningmalfunctioning model of a manufacturing system, and on the contribution of predictive maintenance system and supervisory control for predictive maintenance. The results of this integration is an upgrade information-based repository for the in...

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in today’s world have numerous issues ensuring the availability safety of critical machines their components working environment. As a result, SMEs considered planning scheduling maintenance tasks to be significant threat. The goal this research is identify subsystem automobile spare parts production plant southern region Tamil Nadu, India, then priorit...

PURPOSE: The purpose of present paper is to compute the fuzzy reliability of the stainless steel utensil manufacturing unit for the constant failure and repair rates. The effect of variations of fuzzy reliability with time and system coverage factor for a set of failure and repair rates is also studied. METHODOLOGY/APPROACHThe mathematical model of Stainless Steel Utensil Manufacturing Unit has...

Health workforce planning is essential in the provision of quality healthcare. Several approaches to planning are customarily used and advocated, each with unique underlying assumptions. Thus, a thorough understanding of each assumption is required in order to make an informed decision on the choice of forecasting approach to be used. For illustration, we compare results for eye care requiremen...

This paper discusses the issue of integrating production planning and preventive maintenance in manufacturing production systems. In particular, it tackles the problem of integrating production and preventive maintenance in a system composed of parallel failure-prone production lines. It is assumed that when a production line fails, a minimal repair is carried out to restore it to an ‘as-bad-as...

There are recognised shortages in most health professions in Australia. This is evidence that previous attempts at health workforce planning have failed. This paper argues that one reason for such failure is the lack of appropriate structures for health workforce planning. It also suggests that Australia needs to move beyond planning for particular professions and that health workforce planning...

OBJECTIVE This paper describes a conceptual framework and associated intelligence requirements for problem-based workforce development for public health nutrition. METHODS A conceptual framework for public health nutrition workforce development was constructed based on a review of the literature and consideration of the intelligence needs to inform workforce development planning. RESULTS A ...

We present an approach of a distributed planning method to solve dynamically some typical tasks of a production planning system in a exible manufacturing system (FMS) at control level without using a xed central component during planning and execution of orders received by one or several production planning systems above the control level. To achieve this, a exible manufacturing system has been...

Semiconductor manufacturing is one of the most complex and capital-intensive processes composed of several hundreds of operations. In today's competitive business environments, it is more important than ever before to manage manufacturing process effectively to achieve better performances in terms of customer satisfaction and productivity than those of competitors. To obtain such fruitful outco...