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Title:

Influence Of Company Sizes In Adapted Master Production Scheduling For Improving Human Working Conditions

Authors:

Marco Trost, Thorsten Claus, Frank Herrmann

Published in:

2020). ECMS 2020 Proceedings Edited by: Mike Steglich, Christian Muller, Gaby Neumann, Mathias Walther, European Council for Modeling and Simulation.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.7148/2020

ISSN: 2522-2422 (ONLINE)

ISSN: 2522-2414 (PRINT)

ISSN: 2522-2430 (CD-ROM)

ISBN: 978-3-937436-68-5
ISBN: 978-3-937436-69-2(CD)

Communications of the ECMS , Volume 34, Issue 1, June 2020,

United Kingdom

Citation format:

Marco Trost, Thorsten Claus, Frank Herrmann (2020). Influence Of Company Sizes In Adapted Master Production Scheduling For Improving Human Working Conditions, ECMS 2020 Proceedings Edited By: Mike Steglich, Christian Mueller, Gaby Neumann, Mathias Walther European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi: 10.7148/2020-0287

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7148/2020-0287

Abstract:

Sustainability is an important topic in production planning and control. This article contributes in particular to further research on the social dimension. It presents a linear optimisation model for Master Production Scheduling in order to improve human working conditions. Existing approaches have already identified a considerable potential for improvements. Furthermore, this article analyses the influence of the company size on workload and costs using an application with a high proportion of manual activities. It is demonstrated that human working conditions can be improved independently from the company size without increasing costs. In addition, smaller companies tend to have a higher exhaustion and the workload affects the total costs more in smaller companies. Therefore, smaller companies might benefit more from an improvement in human working conditions.

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