Optimal job rotation scheduling under productivity and ergonomic risk constraints in assembly lines

22nd International Conference on Production Research, ICPR 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Boenzi, F ^a   Digiesi, S ^a   Mossa, G ^a   Mummolo, G ^a   Romano, V A ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Automotive; Human workload balancing; Job rotation; Manual tasks; OCRA based mathematical programming; UL WRMSD

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY MACHINES; AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; EMPLOYMENT; ERGONOMICS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; PRODUCTION; PRODUCTIVITY; SCHEDULING;

AUTOMOTIVE; JOB ROTATION; MANUAL TASKS; UL-WRMSD; WORKLOAD BALANCING;

ASSEMBLY;

EID: 84929377306     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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