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Competence-Based Workforce Allocation for Manual Assembly Lines

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Intelligent Systems in Production Engineering and Maintenance (ISPEM 2018)

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The paper presents an approach to multi-skilled workforce allocation based on predicted performance. The performance is estimated using Hierarchical Competence Model, which takes into account the required skills at every working station of a u-shaped manual assembly line and possessed skill of operators. The task is to find an allocation that maximises total skill improvement while guarantees required production capacity.

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  1. Faculty of Computer Science, West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, ul. Zolnierska 49, 71-113, Szczecin, Poland

    Bartlomiej Malachowski & Przemyslaw Korytkowski

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  1. Bartlomiej Malachowski
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Correspondence to Bartlomiej Malachowski .

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  1. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland

    Anna Burduk

  2. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland

    Edward Chlebus

  3. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland

    Tomasz Nowakowski

  4. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland

    Agnieszka Tubis

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Malachowski, B., Korytkowski, P. (2019). Competence-Based Workforce Allocation for Manual Assembly Lines. In: Burduk, A., Chlebus, E., Nowakowski, T., Tubis, A. (eds) Intelligent Systems in Production Engineering and Maintenance. ISPEM 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 835. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97490-3_43

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