Agile personnel scheduling in production volatile environments
Deadline
Challenge
Are you grappling with the uncertainties of a production landscape marked by erratic demand and frequent disruptions to schedules? Are you seeking cost-effective strategies to align your production and human resource planning and scheduling across strategic, tactical, and operational levels?
In dynamic production environments, companies face pressing challenges that demand flexible scheduling solutions. Current software packages exacerbate these challenges by offering isolated reasoning at either the strategic, tactical, or operational level. They lack sufficient support for proactive decision-making and fail to accommodate desired agility policies and dynamic scheduling. Additionally, the separation of job planning from resource (personnel) planning results in suboptimal solutions. Finally, there is a noticeable absence of mechanisms for proactive and reactive recovery, as well as decision support.
The industry requires a comprehensive solution to enhance the operational efficiency of flexible job and resource planning and scheduling.
Project goal
In this project, we will design a decision support planning scheduling engine for agile task/job and personnel planning and scheduling in dynamic and volatile production environments.
We will study the impact of implementing multiple ways of adding flexibility at the strategic, tactical and operational level of decision-making encompassing proactive and reactive (either event-driven, periodically, or hybrid) scheduling (e.g. task swapping) in response to demand fluctuations and schedule disruptions.
The decision support tool will optimally introduce flexibility/agility into resource management Additionally, it will calculate the impact of strategic (e.g. such as skill mix, overtime, annualised hours, overtime, … ) and tactical decisions (e.g. capacity and time buffering) on operational outcomes. The analysis will consider the trade-off between agility and economic factors. It will further evaluate/balance personnel satisfaction proxies. The goal is to help companies optimize personnel resources, enhance competitiveness, and streamline operations for resilience and adaptability.
Would you also like to participate in this project?
AGIPROVE_IRVA is an industrial research project. We are looking for companies that want to be part of the user group and work with us to valorise the project.
Interested? Fill in the form below and we will contact you as soon as possible.
