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Modeling Job Rotation in Manufacturing Systems: The Study of Employee's Boredom and Skill Variations

Azizi, Nader, Zolfaghari, Saeed, Liang, Ming (2010) Modeling Job Rotation in Manufacturing Systems: The Study of Employee's Boredom and Skill Variations. International Journal of Production Economics, 123 (1). pp. 69-85. ISSN 0925-5273. (doi:10.1016/j.ijpe.2009.07.010) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:29946)

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2009.07.010

Abstract

This paper presents a methodology for job rotation in manufacturing systems that aims to ease employee's boredom and exploit the effect of rotation intervals on worker's skill learning and forgetting. To this end, a series of formulations are proposed to measure employee's boredom and skill variations during a production horizon. Based on the proposed formulations, a mathematical programming model for job rotation is developed, and a numerical example is provided to illustrate its applications. Furthermore, based on a generic framework of the SAMED metaheuristic, a search algorithm, SAMED-JR, is tailored to solve the proposed model for large scale problems.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2009.07.010
Uncontrolled keywords: Job rotation; Boredom; Manufacturing; Search algorithm
Subjects: H Social Sciences
H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Divisions: Divisions > Kent Business School - Division > Kent Business School (do not use)
Depositing User: Catherine Norman
Date Deposited: 27 Jul 2012 09:32 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:07 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/29946 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Azizi, Nader.

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