Article ID: | iaor19992403 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 105 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 308 |
End Page Number: | 316 |
Publication Date: | Mar 1998 |
Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
Authors: | Derks J., Vrieze O.J., Oosten M., Merode G.G. van, Hasman A. |
Keywords: | scheduling |
In many clinical laboratories span of control problems make it necessary to divide the clinical laboratory into sections (departments, job shops). A section is in fact a set of workstations where tests are performed on samples. A mathematical programming model is described which clusters workstations in such a way that the maximum idle time of staff in staff assignment periods is minimized. An example demonstrates the usefulness of the approach.