TY - GEN
T1 - Holonic-based flexible allocation of workforce in labourintensive manufacturing shop floors
AU - Jules, Guiovanni
AU - Saadat, Mozafar
AU - Tan, Melissa C.L.
AU - Owliya, Mohammad
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Assembly-based operations, in one-off and batch production, are mostly served by labour-intensive industries. The throughput performances of those industries are highly dependent on the performance of the labour on the job and the availability of the workers. The most significant threat to those industries is the sudden unavailability of skilled labour. Through a flexible workforce allocation system, such disturbances can be attenuated. This paper presents a workforce allocation system developed from the concepts of holonic manufacturing systems and PROSA reference architecture. The system is tested using a specifically developed C++ object-oriented software. Production data were gathered from the case study of a large computer manufacturing factory and used to simulate the proposed system. The paper then presents a comparison of the factory conventional method of workforce allocation and the proposed holonic workforce allocation system.
AB - Assembly-based operations, in one-off and batch production, are mostly served by labour-intensive industries. The throughput performances of those industries are highly dependent on the performance of the labour on the job and the availability of the workers. The most significant threat to those industries is the sudden unavailability of skilled labour. Through a flexible workforce allocation system, such disturbances can be attenuated. This paper presents a workforce allocation system developed from the concepts of holonic manufacturing systems and PROSA reference architecture. The system is tested using a specifically developed C++ object-oriented software. Production data were gathered from the case study of a large computer manufacturing factory and used to simulate the proposed system. The paper then presents a comparison of the factory conventional method of workforce allocation and the proposed holonic workforce allocation system.
KW - Holonic Manufacturing System
KW - Object-oriented programming
KW - Workforce Allocation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=83755184289&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICSMC.2011.6083704
DO - 10.1109/ICSMC.2011.6083704
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:83755184289
SN - 9781457706523
T3 - Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
SP - 434
EP - 439
BT - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2011 - Conference Digest
T2 - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2011
Y2 - 9 October 2011 through 12 October 2011
ER -