Priority rules for the control of flexible labour utilisation

Abstract

Within this paper a cyber-physical-system for the support of a self-organised and highly flexible labour utilisation will be presented. It displays one of the main results of the German research project “KapaflexCy”, which comprises of ten industrial and scientific partners. The approach of the project is to involve employees in the personnel planning and scheduling processes by means of a matching and voting process with mobile communication devices and a rule base with a comprehensive set of priority rules which limit the possible work assignments within a legal and economical justified corridor for flexible working hours. Used Criteria are the qualification of employees, the legal restrictions on maximum working hours, the flextime wage records and the personal preferences of the employees. The paper will highlight in particular the priority rules, which are used to calculate the priority indicator for work assignments of the employees