Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to examine the claim that the application of human
factors (HF) knowledge can improve both human well‐being and operations system (OS) …

The effects of workforce differences on manufacturing systems have attracted the attention of
a wide range of researchers in recent years. The differences between workers in terms of …

The classical flexible flow shop scheduling problem (FFSP) only considers machine
flexibility. Thus far, the relevant literature has not studied FFSPs with worker flexibility, which …

In this paper, we propose an original double flexible job-shop scheduling problem (DFJSP),
in which both workers and machines are flexible. Because of the characteristics of double …

The traditional flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSP) considers machine flexibility but
not worker flexibility. Given the influence and potential of human factors in improving …

As one of the manufacturing industries with high energy consumption and high pollution,
sand casting is facing major challenges in green manufacturing. In order to balance …

The efficient and effective management of nursing personnel is of critical importance in a
hospital's environment comprising a vast share of the operational costs. The adopted nurse …

The worker flexibility and green production related factors are two key aspects that widely
exit in real-life production and seriously affect the production efficiency and ecological …

Since workers have an important role in doing jobs on machines, assignment of workers to
cells becomes a crucial factor for full utilization of cellular manufacturing systems. This paper …

In existing scheduling models, the flexible job-shop scheduling problem mainly considers
machine flexibility. However, human factor is also an important element existing in real …