TY - CHAP A1 - Trost, Marco A1 - Claus, Thorsten A1 - Herrmann, Frank ED - Al-Begain, Khalid T1 - Employment of temporary workers and use of overtime to achieve volume flexibility using master production scheduling: monetary and social implications T2 - Proceedings of the 35th ECMS International Conference on Modelling and Simulation (ECMS 2021): May 31st-June 2nd, 2021, United Kingdom N2 - Flexibility and in particular volume flexibility is an important topic for industrial manufacturing companies. In this context, the harmonization of the available and required capacity is a central task, especially with increasing fluctuations in customer demand. In classical approaches , this is considered only by the use of additional capacities and there are only a few approaches that combine aspects of personnel planning with production planning. Therefore, this article presents a linear optimization model for master production scheduling that includes aspects of personnel requirements planning. It is used to investigate different strategies for the use of overtime and temporary workers in order to achieve different levels of volume flexibility. With regard to the monetary and social impacts, the results indicate that overtime has a stronger influence to achieve volume flexibility than the use of temporary workers. However, both are affected by substantial deficits in human working conditions. But the results also imply a promising potential for improving the social aspects without a significant increase in costs. Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:898-opus4-24906 SN - 978-3-937436-72-2 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Trost, Marco A1 - Claus, Thorsten A1 - Herrmann, Frank ED - Steglich, Mike T1 - Influence of Company Sizes in adapted Master Production Scheduling for Improving Human Working Conditions T2 - Proceedings of the 34th International ECMS Conference on Modelling and Simulation, ECMS 2020 N2 - Sustainability is an important topic in production plan-ning and control. This article contributes in particular the to further research on the social dimension. It pre-sents a linear optimisation model for Master Produc-tion Scheduling in order to improve human working conditions. Existing approaches have already identified a considerable potential for improvements. Further-more, this article analyses the influence of the compa-ny size on workload and costs using an application with a high proportion of manual activities. It is demonstrat-ed that human working conditions can be improved independently from the company size without increas-ing 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. KW - company size KW - cost reduction KW - exhaustion KW - linear optimisation KW - master production scheduling KW - workload Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:898-opus4-24817 SN - 978-3-937436-68-5 SP - 287 EP - 293 PB - European Council for Modelling and Simulation ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Terbrack, Hajo A1 - Frank, Ingo A1 - Herrmann, Frank A1 - Claus, Thorsten A1 - Trost, Marco A1 - Götz, Matthias T1 - A literature database on ecological sustainability in hierarchical production planning JF - Anwendungen und Konzepte der Wirtschaftsinformatik N2 - This article describes a systematic literature search of research articles on the topics of ecological sustainability and production planning. Over 900 research articles deal intensively with these topics. These articles were catalogued and included in a database. They can be evaluated with an analysis tool, developed by the research group. The tool is available free of charge via a website of the research group. KW - Database KW - Sustainability KW - Ecology KW - Production Planning Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:898-opus4-23539 UR - https://akwi.hswlu.ch/article/view/3281 SN - 2296-4592 IS - 12 SP - 36 EP - 40 PB - AKWI ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Trost, Marco A1 - Teich, Enrico A1 - Claus, Thorsten A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Master Production Scheduling and the relevance of included social criteria T2 - ACC Journal N2 - Folgender Beitrag untersucht die Notwendigkeit einer Berücksichtigung von Mitarbeiterauslastungen und davon abhängiger Bearbeitungszeiten in der Hauptproduktionsprogrammplanung. Zudem wird aufgezeigt, dass dieses Themengebiet aktuell eine Forschungslücke darstellt. Aus diesem Grund wird ein selbst entwickeltes lineares Optimierungsmodell für die Hauptproduktionsprogrammplanung vorgestellt, welches soziale Kriterien und eine geeignete Fallstudie enthält. Die Ergebnisse verdeutlichen, dass erhebliche Abweichungen durch eine Ignoranz von Mitarbeiterauslastungen und davon abhängiger Bearbeitungszeiten entstehen. Deshalb ist eine Integration zu empfehlen. Allerdings wird auch deutlich, dass weitere Forschungen notwendig sind, speziell für die Bestimmung geeigneter Erschöpfungsfunktionen, so wie beispielsweise Funktionen für Lerneffekte existieren. KW - Fertigungsprogrammplanung KW - Personaleinsatz KW - Lineare Optimierung KW - Sustainability KW - Production planning and control KW - Master production scheduling KW - Linear optimization KW - Human fatigue Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.15240/tul/004/2017-2-011 VL - 23 IS - 3 SP - 146 EP - 154 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Trost, Marco A1 - Claus, Thorsten A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Adapted Master Production Scheduling: Potential for Improving Human Working Conditions T2 - Proceedings of the 33th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation 2019 (ECMS), Caserta, Italy N2 - This article illustrates the problem of deficient working conditions like high work intensity and underlines the possibilities of production planning and control to improve them. However, an included literature search presents that previous approaches have predominantly considered social aspects within a short planning horizon and that there is a need for a long-term consideration. To address this research gap a linear optimization model for Master Production Scheduling is presented, which has been extended by basic aspects of personnel requirements planning and a control of personnel work intensity. The results show that improvements in working conditions can be achieved through adapted production planning without an automatically increase in costs. However , challenges in quantifying the corresponding social correlations are identified as well. KW - Produktionsplanung KW - Personalbedarfsplanung KW - Lineare Optimierung KW - Master Production Scheduling KW - Sustainability KW - Work Intensity KW - Workload Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.7148/2019 VL - 33,1 SP - 310 EP - 316 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Trost, Marco A1 - Teich, Enrico A1 - Claus, Thorsten A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Ein lineares Optimierungsmodell zur Hauptproduktionsprogrammplanung mit Berücksichtigung sozialer Größen JF - uwf UmweltWirtschaftsForum N2 - Aufgrund weniger existenter sozialorientierter Forschungen im Rahmen der Produktionsplanung und -steuerung stellt dieser Beitrag ein lineares Optimierungsmodell für die Hauptproduktionsprogrammplanung vor, welches soziale Kriterien berücksichtigt. Erste Ergebnisse deuten an, dass geringe Kosten nicht durch eine maximierte Mitarbeiterauslastung entstehen sondern durch geringe Kapazitätsschwankungen. KW - Sustainability KW - Social dimension KW - Production planning and control KW - Master production scheduling KW - Linear optimisation KW - Hierarchische Produktionsplanung KW - Fertigungsprogrammplanung KW - Personaleinsatz KW - Lineare Optimierung Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00550-017-0454-7 VL - 25 SP - 71 EP - 80 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Trost, Marco A1 - Claus, Thorsten A1 - Teich, Enrico A1 - Selmair, Maximilian A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Social and Ecological Capabilities for a sustainable Hierarchical Production Planning T2 - Proceedings of the 30th EUROPEAN Conference on Modeling and Simulation (ECMS 2016), May 31st - June 3rd, 2016, Regensburg, Germany N2 - Production planning and production control mainly focus on optimising the entire production system of a company. On the basis of hierarchical planning as a suitable method for solving this task, this paper shows - besides the economic dimension taken into account so far - that there are also social and ecological effects which will have to be considered in the process of planning. For this purpose, we would like to indicate here which social and ecological parameters can be or have already been taken into account for master production scheduling, for lot sizing and resource scheduling. As a result, an overview has been created which presents the existing concepts of sustainable production planning and production control as well as the existing deficits regarding the sustainability perspective. KW - Hierarchische Produktionsplanung KW - Soziale Verantwortung KW - Ökologie KW - production planning KW - hierarchical planning KW - social variables KW - ecological variables KW - sustainable hierarchical production planning Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.7148/2016-0432 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Selmair, Maximilian A1 - Claus, Thorsten A1 - Trost, Marco A1 - Bley, Andreas A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Job Shop Scheduling with Flexible Energy Prices T2 - Proceedings of the 30th EUROPEAN Conference on Modeling and Simulation, May 31st - June 3rd, 2016, Regensburg, Germany N2 - The rising energy prices – particularly over the last decade – pose a new challenge for the manufacturing industry. Reactions to climate change, such as the advancement of renewable energies, raise the expectation of further price increases and variations. Regarding the manufacturing industry, production planning and controlling can have a significant influence on the in-plant energy consumption. In this paper, we develop a scheduling method as a linear optimization model with the objective to minimize energy costs in a job shop production system. KW - Job Shop Scheduling KW - Flexible Energy Prices KW - Energy Efficient Production Planning KW - Energy Consumption KW - Standby Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.7148/2016-0488 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Trost, Marco A1 - Forstner, Robert A1 - Claus, Thorsten A1 - Herrmann, Frank A1 - Frank, Ingo A1 - Terbrack, Hajo T1 - Sustainable Production Planning and Control: A Systematic Literature Review T2 - Proceedings of the 33th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation 2019 (ECMS), Caserta, Italy N2 - This article reviews the state of the art in research regarding sustainable extensions of hierarchical production planning. Sustainability is currently of considerable importance due to various interest groups. Hierarchical operational production planning and control is the state of the art in research as well as in industrial practice for planning of stations and their aggregations to production systems. Thus, it might be highly relevant to improve sustainability. In the literature mainly the scheduling level as well as the ecological dimension are considered. So the current research is limited to selected partial planning problems and incomplete with regard to sustainable aspects that emerge. KW - Produktionsplanung KW - Nachhaltigkeit KW - Literaturbericht KW - Sustainability KW - Production Planning and Control KW - Review Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.7148/2019 VL - 33,1 SP - 303 EP - 309 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Trost, Marco A1 - Claus, Thorsten A1 - Teich, Enrico A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Die soziale Dimension in der nachhaltigen hierarchischen Produktionsplanung – Stand der Forschung und Ansätze zur Weiterentwicklung bestehender Planungsmodelle T2 - Proceedings zur NAMA 2016 (NAMA 2016), October 5th - 7th, 2016, Dresden, Germany N2 - Bei der Produktionsplanung steht die Optimierung des Produktionssystems eines Unternehmens im Vordergrund. In diesem Beitrag wird auf Basis der hierarchischen Produktionsplanung aufgezeigt, dass neben ökonomischen und ökologischen Aspekten insbesondere auch soziale Effekte bei der Entscheidungsfindung zu berücksichtigen sind. Dazu werden für die Hauptproduktionsprogrammplanung, die Losgrößenplanung und die Ressourcenbelegungsplanung dargelegt, welche sozialen Größen berücksichtigt werden können beziehungsweise bereits berücksichtigt sind. Überdies wird ein Modellansatz zur Hauptproduktionsprogrammplanung vorgestellt, der auf die Beseitigung identifizierter Forschungslücken abzielt. KW - Hierarchische Produktionsplanung KW - Nachhaltigkeit KW - Soziale Verantwortung Y1 - 2016 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Trost, Marco A1 - Claus, Thorsten A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Master production scheduling with consideration of social aspects for networking with human resources requirements planning T2 - Proceedings of the International Annual Conference of the German Operations Research Society 2018 (OR 2018), Brüssel, September 12 - 14, 2018 N2 - A large number of current research focuses on the sustainable orientation of business processes. However, it is often neglected that, next to the ecological and economic dimension, the social dimension is also an important pillar of sustainability. Therefore, the intended contribution focuses on the integration of social aspects into the Master Production Scheduling and thus achieves a network between production planning and human resources requirements planning. The study shows that previous papers on production planning and control usually ignore the social dimension. Exceptions are works that take advantage of learning and forgetting effects at the lot-sizing and scheduling. In addition, there are various papers in the scheduling area which aim to reduce employee workload by optimizing resource allocation. Thus, however, only an optimal distribution of burden is achieved. Therefore, this paper presents a long-term management of the burden. To this end, the classic Master Production Scheduling, which has been statically limited in terms of capacity, whereby additional capacities have been used, will be expanded. At the same time, human resources requirements planning is based on assumptions regarding the expected capacity requirements. The created linear optimization model, addresses these weak points. A flexible available capacity is integrated on the basis of existing sales orders. It is making possible, to build up and reduce capacities, whereby technical restrictions (number of workplaces) and labor market conditions (number of available employees, qualification of employees and experience of employees) are also mapped. This represents a significant progress compared to previous models, whereby the target function minimizes costs. Further progress has been made in investigating the effects of exhaustion. The ratio of capacity requirements to available capacity was controlled externally as employee utilization and processing times dependent on the employee's utilization were taken into account. Subsequently, different utilization situations were examined under the assumption of different exhaustion and random demand patterns with the aim of determining an optimal employee utilization. A key finding of this study is that - contrary to common assumptions - achieving cost benefits is not necessarily associated with maximizing utilization, but rather with controlling employee utilization. An additional effect results from the reduction of the employee burden. However, the flexible capacity available does not limit the performance of the production system. In addition, we are currently working on the investigation of effects in a long-term planning horizon and of consequences for the downstream planning levels of production planning and control. Overall, the contribution presents an innovative research project that aims to integrate social aspects into production planning in order to make a contribution to truly sustainable models in the future. KW - Produktionsplanung KW - Ablaufplanung KW - Soziale Verantwortung Y1 - 2018 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Trost, Marco A1 - Claus, Thorsten A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Adapted Master Production Scheduling: Analysis on the impact of relevant social performance indicators from the GRI standard T2 - Proceedings of the International Annual Conference of the German Operations Research Society 2019 (OR 2019) Dresden, September 3 - 6, 2019 N2 - The sustainable development of processes is currently an important topic in industry and science. Various interest groups and other factors like resource shortages or a lack of skilled workers drive this trend. In the area of Production and Operation Management, the integration of sustainable aspects is also becoming more and more important. However, mainly ecological aspects are considered. Thus, this contribution expands the previous research by the integration of social aspects. For this, we limit our research to the Master Production Scheduling as part of operational production planning. In the context of sustainability, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standard has established itself for companies and other organisations to report on their sustainability activities. It is the first and most widely adopted global standards for sustainability reporting. The aim of this standard is to measure the sustainable performance and in this way, sustainability activities can be oriented to specific performance indicators. Accordingly, the GRI standard enables concrete initiatives to improve social, environmental and economic conditions for everyone. The modular standard comprises 36 standard modules. For this paper, the 19 social modules were analysed and relevant indicators that could be influenced by the Master Production Scheduling were identified. One of the important indicators from the GRI standard for our research question is the use of employees, measured in terms of hiring and employee turnover. The long-term employee commitment and thus low fluctuation will become a competitive advantage in the future, which is enhanced by the demographic change and the lack of skilled workers. In order to integrate these aspects based on the GRI standard, the classic formulation of Master Production Scheduling is extended. For this a control of the employee utilization within concrete utilization intervals as well as dependent processing times due to different exhaustion effects were integrated. Additionally, in order to take into account the requirements of a flexible production and to model the use of employees, aspects of personnel requirements planning are considered as well, which enable the build-up and reduction of capacity. As a result, social and economic consequences of related production scenarios are presented. In this context, a conflict of targets arises especially with macroeconomic fluctuations. On the one hand, shortages and inventories should be avoided from an economic point of view. On the other hand, a low and constant work intensity as well as a constant number of staff should be preferred for long-term employee commitment. Accordingly, the ability of the model to examine these questions, which will become more and more important for industrial enterprises in the future, becomes clear. Furthermore, it can be seen that it is possible to improve social aspects by adapted production planning without neglecting economic targets. KW - Produktionsplanung KW - Ablaufplanung KW - Soziale Verantwortung KW - Global Reporting Initiative KW - Sustainable Development KW - Capacity Planning KW - Linear Programming Y1 - 2019 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Trost, Marco A1 - Claus, Thorsten A1 - Herrmann, Frank ED - Antlová, Klara ED - Semerádová, Tereza T1 - Limitation of Temporary Employment in the Master Production Scheduling T2 - Liberec Economic Forum 2021: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-80-7494-578-6 SP - 201 EP - 209 CY - Liberec, Czech Republic ET - 1. Aufl. ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Trost, Marco A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Necessity and application advantages of linked master production scheduling and human resources requirements planning JF - Problems of sustainable development of the regions of the Republic of Belarus and neighbouring countries : proceedings of the VII International Scientific-Practical Conference (Internet-conference), Mogilev, 1 May - 1 August 2018. N2 - The following article considers the need to integrate social aspects into the Master Production Scheduling. This is justified by the demand for sustainable business processes and the previously neglected social dimension, which is also reflected in the development of working conditions. The linear optimization model for Master Production Scheduling outlined in connection with aspects of Human Resource Requirements Planning offers an approach to reduce this research gap and underlines the urgency of long-term planning and control of employee burdens. For companies, this results in a Decision Support System through the evaluation of measures to improve working conditions. Y1 - 2019 SP - 108 EP - 113 PB - A. A. Kuleshov Moskauer Staatliche Universität CY - Mogilev ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Terbrack, Hajo A1 - Frank, Ingo A1 - Herrmann, Frank A1 - Claus, Thorsten A1 - Trost, Marco ED - Claus, Thorsten ED - Herrmann, Frank ED - Manitz, Michael T1 - Eine Literaturdatenbank zur Nachhaltigkeit in der hierarchischen Produktionsplanung T2 - Produktionsplanung und -steuerung Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-3-662-64290-0 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-64291-7_3 SP - 27 EP - 35 PB - Springer Gabler CY - Berlin, Heidelberg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Trost, Marco A1 - Terbrack, Hajo A1 - Claus, Thorsten A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Established production planning and control and its enhancement with sustainability T2 - Proceedings of the 37th ECMS International Conference on Modeling and Simulation (ECMS 2023): June 20th - June 23rd, 2023, Florence, Italy N2 - Against the background of the energy crisis, shortage of skilled workers, demographic change and other drivers, sustainable development is also becoming increasingly important for industrial companies. In this respect, production planning and control has an enormous influence on relevant objectives. In classical approaches of production planning and control as presented in this paper, economic-oriented objectives are taken into account to a large extent in decision making. This paper demonstrates that besides these classical models, a variety of approaches exist to influence ecological and social targets through production planning. These different models are assigned to sustainability areas and outlined by exemplary literature sources. Further research is needed, for instance, in the joint consideration of sustainability criteria along different planning levels and sustainable dimensions. KW - Sustainability KW - Social KW - Ecological KW - Hierarchical Production Planning Y1 - 2023 SN - 978-3-937436-80-7 U6 - https://doi.org/10.7148/2023-0320 SN - 2522-2422 SP - 320 EP - 327 PB - ECMS ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Trost, Marco A1 - Claus, Thorsten A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Social Sustainability in Production Planning: A Systematic Literature Review JF - Sustainability N2 - Sustainable production includes economic, environmental, and social aspects. However, social sustainability has received less attention, especially compared to the economic aspects. Next to technical and organizational measures, social improvements within supply chains can also be achieved through suitable production planning. Within production planning, production programs are determined, and the assignment of available resources (e.g., employees) is specified. Thus, the utilization and workload of employees are defined. This systematic literature review investigates to what extent such employee-related social aspects are reflected in production planning and discusses whether economic aspects dominate them. For this, a Scopus database search was carried out and 76 identified approaches were analyzed and categorized regarding the occurring employee-related social aspects and their implementation. Thus far, the approaches mainly consider single aspects on single planning levels. A consideration of a broad set of aspects along the entire production planning has rarely been studied. In particular, health and safety aspects are considered on the levels of assembly line balancing and job rotation. However, their impact is primarily determined by the specific settings of the decision-maker. To support decision-makers, only a few studies have investigated the effects based on real application scenarios. Further potential might be an extended modeling of social and economic interdependencies and a consideration of employee-related social aspects in medium- to long-term production planning. KW - ASSEMBLY-LINE KW - employee KW - ERGONOMIC RISKS KW - FATIGUE KW - FLOWSHOP SCHEDULING PROBLEM KW - JOB ROTATION SCHEDULES KW - LINE BALANCING PROBLEM KW - literature review KW - MODEL KW - MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS KW - production planning KW - social sustainability KW - SUPPLY CHAIN KW - WORKER ASSIGNMENT Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3390/su14138198 VL - 14 IS - 13 SP - 1 EP - 31 PB - MDPI CY - Basel ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Trost, Marco A1 - Claus, Thorsten A1 - Herrmann, Frank T1 - Master Production Scheduling with Consideration of Utilization-Dependent Exhaustion and Capacity Load JF - Sustainability N2 - A large number of researchers have addressed social aspects in hierarchical production planning. This article responds to research gaps identified in our previous literature review. Accordingly, consideration of social aspects and the economic implications of social improvements are required in a longer term planning approach. For this, we integrate work intensity as employee utilization in a general mixed-integer programming model for master production scheduling. Following existing fatigue functions, we represent the relationship between work intensity and exhaustion through an employee-utilization-dependent exhaustion function. We account for the economic implications through exhaustion-dependent capacity load factors. We solve our model with a CPLEX standard solver and analyze a case study based on a realistic production system and numerical data. We demonstrate that the consideration of economic implications is necessary to evaluate social improvements. Otherwise, monetary disadvantages are overestimated, and social improvements are, thus, negatively affected. Moreover, from a certain level of work-intensity reduction, demand peaks are smoothed more by pre-production, which requires more core employees, while temporary employment is reduced. Further potential may arise from considering and quantifying other interdependencies, such as employee exhaustion and employee days off. In addition, the relationship between social working conditions and employee turnover can be integrated. KW - capacity load KW - employee utilization KW - exhaustion KW - linear optimization KW - master productionscheduling KW - ocial aspects Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3390/su15086816 VL - 15 PB - MDPI ER -