The flexibility of production systems is becoming more and more important for manufacturers
facing various changes. As an effective way to increase the flexibility in a short time with a …

The growing need of responsiveness for manufacturing companies facing market volatility
raises a strong demand for flexibility in their organisation. Since the company personnel are …

The Multi-skilled Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem (MS-RCPSP) is a
complex and multi-faceted problem that involves scheduling activities whilst considering …

This paper will relate initially to the scheduling characteristics of flexible manufacturing
systems, and more specifically, the scheduling problems in flowshop and hybrid flowshop …

This research seeks to evaluate the effect of the learning and forgetting phenomenon on
multiskilling decisions. This phenomenon occurs when multiskilled employees lose …

Among all strategies supporting the firms' flexibility and agility, the development of human
resources versatility holds a promising place. This article presents an investigation of the …

Manufacturing companies are facing increasing volatility in demand. As a result, there has
been an emerging need for a flexible multi-period manufacturing system that uses multiple …

Workforce assignment becomes more complex when operators have multiple competencies
and the operators' efficiency changes according to the activities they are assigned to. In this …

La gestion des ateliers de production recherche le meilleur compromis entre les impératifs
commerciaux, financiers et industriels. L'objectif de cet article est la caractérisation et la …

Le besoin croissant de réactivité dans les différents secteurs industriels face à la volatilité
des marchés soulève une forte demande de la flexibilité dans leur organisation. Cette …