Modeling job rotation in manufacturing systems: The study of employee's boredom and skill variations

Nader Azizi, Saeed Zolfaghari and Ming Liang

International Journal of Production Economics, 2010, vol. 123, issue 1, 69-85

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.

Keywords: Job; rotation; Boredom; Manufacturing; Search; algorithm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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