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Title:	Adapted Master Production Scheduling: Potential For Improving Human Working Conditions
Authors:	Marco Trost, Thorsten Claus, Frank Herrmann
Published in:	(2019). ECMS 2019 Proceedings Edited by: Mauro Iacono, Francesco Palmieri, Marco Gribaudo, Massimo Ficco, European Council for Modeling and Simulation. DOI: http://doi.org/10.7148/2019 ISSN: 2522-2422 (ONLINE) ISSN: 2522-2414 (PRINT) ISSN: 2522-2430 (CD-ROM) 33rd International ECMS Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Caserta, Italy, June 11^th – June 14^th, 2019
Citation format:	Marco Trost, Thorsten Claus, Frank Herrmann (2019). Adapted Master Production Scheduling: Potential For Improving Human Working Conditions, ECMS 2019 Proceedings Edited by: Mauro Iacono, Francesco Palmieri, Marco Gribaudo, Massimo Ficco European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi: 10.7148/2019-0310
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.7148/2019-0310
Abstract:	This article illustrates the problem of deficient working conditions like high work intensity and underlines the possibilities of production planning and control to im-prove them. However, an included literature search pre-sents that previous approaches have predominantly con-sidered social aspects within a short planning horizon and that there is a need for a long-term consideration. To ad-dress this research gap a linear optimization model for Master Production Scheduling is presented, which has been extended by basic aspects of personnel require-ments planning and a control of personnel work intensity. The results show that improvements in working condi-tions can be achieved through adapted production plan-ning without an automatically increase in costs. How-ever, challenges in quantifying the corresponding social correlations are identified as well.
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