Scheduling of Design Engineers in an Engineer-To-Order Production System
摘要
Lead time reduction is a major challenge facing Engineer-to-Order manufacturing. Rapid skill improvement of the workforce will positively impact the processing time of work. For Engineer-to-Order production systems, the product design activity significantly affects product lead time. In this research, a scheduling system for design engineers in such a production environment is investigated as a combinatorial optimization problem. A tabu-search based algorithm is proposed, and neighbourhood structures are explored.