Embodying decisions on work shifts into strategic manufacturing capacity planning
分析了将工作班次决策纳入战略产能规划的影响，提出了一个数学规划模型，能处理设备使用强度与维护及可变成本间的关系，并通过计算实验验证了模型在中等规模下的可解性。
In spite of the obvious impact that decisions on workforce planning have on the capacity of a production system, they are rarely mentioned in strategic capacity planning literature. This paper analyses the implications of embodying decisions on work shifts in strategic capacity planning and proposes a mathematical programming model that allows treating any type of relationship between the intensity in the use of the production equipment and maintenance and variable production costs. A computational experiment shows that the model can be solved in acceptable computing times for moderate values of the number of types of equipment and of work shifts. Using the model, the optimal solutions for diverse scenarios are presented and compared with those obtained under the assumption that the work shifts must be kept invariable over the entire horizon.