Reduction of Labor Turnover Impact through Dynamic Work Allocation and Active Operator Replacement Policies

通过动态工作分配和积极的操作员更换政策减少劳动力流动影响

• 批准号: 0100370
• 负责人: Jesus Villalobos
• 金额: $ 24.92万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-05-15 至 2005-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0100370&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Reduction; Labor; Turnover; Impact; through

This project will investigate different work allocation strategies in conjunction with operator replacement policies that appear to be more suitable for high labor turnover environments. The idea is to find work allocation methods that give less workload to new operators and automatically increase this load as they gain experience. In particular, the reduction of the effects of labor turnover on productivity when hybrid assembly methods based on bucket brigade and work sharing are used will be will be researched. This investigation will be performed by constructing the appropriate analytical and simulation models of different production lines and work allocation and operator replacement strategies. An important characteristic of the research is the close collaboration that will be maintained with industry. In order to develop and test the models, the investigators will gather information and validate the research results in the facilities of the industrial partner.High labor turnover, frequently cited as a major contributor to lagging productivity and competitiveness of the U.S. industry, represents enormous costs that impact the competitiveness of a manufacturing firm. The costs more frequently associated with labor turnover include those associated with recruiting and training the new employees. However, there are other costs, such as production losses caused by the variability introduced by the new operators into the assembly line, that are frequently ignored. These production losses are the result of the learning process that the new employees go through and that the current assembly lines are not designed to accommodate. While the usual approach to deal with high labor turnover focus on reducing it by using long-term strategies such as better recruiting and giving incentives to employees to stay with the company, this research project seeks engineering solutions to mitigate its negative effects. This is particularly important for the period in which the benefits of the implementation of long-term policies are not felt yet.

该项目将与操作员替代政策一起研究不同的工作分配策略，这些策略似乎更适合于高劳动力周转环境。 这个想法是找到工作分配方法，这些方法为新运营商提供了更少的工作量，并随着经验而自动增加此负载。特别是，将研究基于桶旅和工作共享的混合装配方法的降低对生产率的影响。 该研究将通过构建不同生产线的适当分析和仿真模型以及工作分配和运营商替换策略来进行。 该研究的一个重要特征是将与行业保持密切合作。 为了开发和测试模型，调查人员将收集信息并验证工业合作伙伴的设施中的研究结果。高级劳动力周转，通常被认为是美国行业滞后生产力和竞争力的主要贡献者，代表了影响一家制造业公司竞争力的巨大成本。 与劳动力流动相关的成本更频繁，包括与招聘和培训新员工相关的成本。 但是，还有其他成本，例如由新运营商引入的变异性造成的生产损失，经常被忽略。 这些生产损失是新员工经历的学习过程的结果，目前的装配线并非旨在适应。 尽管使用长期招聘和激励员工与公司保持诱因之类的长期策略来处理高层劳动力的通常方法，以减少它，但该研究项目寻求工程解决方案来减轻其负面影响。 这对于尚未感受到长期政策的实施的时期尤其重要。