Zhaojing:

Let us communicate more about what you wish to do in your research.  There are some ways we can incorporate human behavior in scheduling models including the stochastic nature of the problem parameters and the variables.

However, I want to learn more about your problems before I answer them.  Please write to me at [email protected], my e-mail as it is better to discuss that way.

Jatinder (Jeet) N. D. Gupta

Thanks very much Dr. Gupta! I have sent the email to you, please check it. Thanks!

Will response in a day or so.

Hello,

Please, look at the attached links. Hope, some proposals could be helpful.

Greetings,

Greg Klosowski

Chapter Application of Fuzzy Logic in Assigning Workers to Production Tasks

Article Human Resource Selection for Manufacturing System Using Petri Nets

Hi Zhaojing,

The attached paper is not linked to scheduling but does provide a focus on human factors in a manufacturing setting.

Hi Zhaojing,

You should look for papers which deals with human features - such as competence, knowledge or experience - as a weight or parameter in the schedulling objective function. Hope this paper helps you.   

Thanks Dr.Grzegorz, Dr.Kym and Dr. Glauco! I will read your papers thoroughly and will be certain to be enlightened! Thanks very much again!

As far as I can see you may be interested in integrating  the human behaviour  (and way of reasoning) in your scheduling model. 

If so you can fuzzify your model. In fact, fuzzy logic well mimics human way of reasoning. 

The following link may be useful to you:

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/4543/b7e96fce777ed7984d4b965f627742a21a2c.pdf

Thank you

A very good question. To optimize production scheduling one can model human aspect by making use of fuzzy approach. The uncertainty or subjectivity  with respect to human aspect can be modeled and addressed to a certain extent.

Optimized Dynamic Production Scheduling is a state-of-the-art approach, developed by Optimal Electronics, for automating printed circuit board assembly and achieving fully optimized production capacity, in real time, without adding capital equipment or headcount. Optimization technology enables companies to overcome the limitations to realize a new level of production efficiency and dramatic gains in production capacity. The limitations of the manual approach prevent manufacturers from maximizing production capacity and leveraging the full value of capital equipment, materials inventory and labor resources. Production-related benefits include: Dramatically reduces changeover in less people, less downtime, less materials.

您好！

I consider that it would be a good option to use a wider communication, form may managerial experience, sometimes, if you do not communicate (in an easy way) your objectives to your operators (workers), it is very difficult to have a good performance on any initiative or project you want to implement. So, depending on the educational level, you need your workers to understand what, how, when, and/or who will work on the initiative or project. Once you have cover that request, you can use any abstract tool to approach the reality.

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