A manufacturing system able to perform a high variety of tasks requires different types of
resources. Fully automated systems using robots possess high speed, accuracy …

In advanced manufacturing of building elements, process integration and utilization of multi-
skilled resources enhance the flexibility of production networks against variations in demand …

The worker flexibility and green production related factors are two key aspects that widely
exit in real-life production and seriously affect the production efficiency and ecological …

The manufacturing systems constrained by both machines and heterogeneous workers are
referred to as Dual Resource Constrained (DRC) systems. DRC scheduling problem has …

This paper studies the personnel staffing decision accounting for the planning of workforce
training and the inclusion of learning and forgetting, which dynamically change the …

This research examines the economic viability of night shelf stocking in the retail industry. By
analyzing real data on the costs and benefits of both night and day stocking, we propose a …

Multiskilling is a workforce flexibility strategy where companies educate workers to perform a
set of task types effectively. When the multiskilling plans are structured using k-chaining …

Using personnel scheduling to reduce overstaffing and understaffing in a service industry
across multiple periods is often undermined by lack of flexibility due to the exclusive use of …

In humans, the relationship between experience and productivity, also known as learning
(possibly also including forgetting), is non-linear. As a result, prescriptive planning models …

Drawing on a relational perspective to human resource development and management
(HRD/M), a multilevel and multisource field study has been conducted examining how HRM …