TY - GEN
T1 - Factors affecting the development of workforce versatility
AU - Attia, El Awady
AU - Dumbrava, Virgil
AU - Duquenne, Philippe
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Among all strategies supporting the firms' flexibility and agility, the development of human resources versatility holds a promising place. This article presents an investigation of the factors affecting the development of this flexibility lever, related to the problem of planning and scheduling industrial activities, taking into account two dimensions of flexibility: the modulation of working time, which provides the company with fluctuating work capacities, and the versatility of operators: for all the multi-skilled workers, we adopt a dynamic vision of their competences. Therefore, this model takes into account the evolution of their skills over time, depending on how much they were put in practice in previous periods. The model was solved by using an approach relying on genetic algorithm that used an indirect encoding to build the chromosome genotype, and then a serial scheduling scheme is adopted to build the solution.
AB - Among all strategies supporting the firms' flexibility and agility, the development of human resources versatility holds a promising place. This article presents an investigation of the factors affecting the development of this flexibility lever, related to the problem of planning and scheduling industrial activities, taking into account two dimensions of flexibility: the modulation of working time, which provides the company with fluctuating work capacities, and the versatility of operators: for all the multi-skilled workers, we adopt a dynamic vision of their competences. Therefore, this model takes into account the evolution of their skills over time, depending on how much they were put in practice in previous periods. The model was solved by using an approach relying on genetic algorithm that used an indirect encoding to build the chromosome genotype, and then a serial scheduling scheme is adopted to build the solution.
KW - Heterogeneous dynamic skills
KW - Human resources flexibility
KW - Project planning and scheduling
KW - Versatility
KW - Workforce allocation
KW - Working time modulation
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84866078501
U2 - 10.3182/20120523-3-RO-2023.00164
DO - 10.3182/20120523-3-RO-2023.00164
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84866078501
SN - 9783902661982
T3 - IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)
SP - 1221
EP - 1226
BT - Proceedings - INCOM'12, 14th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing
PB - IFAC Secretariat
T2 - 14th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing, INCOM'12
Y2 - 23 May 2012 through 25 May 2012
ER -