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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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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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