Personnel availability

Present-day optimisation methods of the Digital Factory and simulation essentially aim at the improvement of the technical processes within manufacturing and logistics processes. However, the personnel still represents the deciding factor of success in most processes but is only rarely included in the optimisation analyses.

In principle, personnel optimisation provides the opportunity to analyse the dynamic interactions between the manufacturing or logistics process, the workplace and the available personnel, namely regarding the following aspects:

• technical/logistic (e.g. which effects does personnel availability have on logistic parameters such as performance, throughput time or adherence to schedules?)
• financial (e.g. which cost saving arises with fluctuating job load due to transition to flexible personnel capacities?)
• organisational (e.g. can higher efficiency be achieved with dynamic personnel scheduling within a production order system?)

Your benefit:

The fundamental benefit lies in safeguarding decisions in the personnel requirements planning and scheduling as well as in the specification of the optimum synergy between manufacturing/logistics process, workplace and personnel.

Concrete examples of projects:

• Determination of surplus personnel in case of transition from 3- to 2-shift operation,
• Search for the ideal combination of permanent employees and contract workers due to fluctuating job load,
• Long-term specification of personnel requirements due to the predicted volumes of orders.

Further information

Info sheet: Personnel simulation

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