Optimization of the allocation of production specialist working in a semiconductor company under the compressed skeletal workforce schedule using linear programming

Manufacturing is the processing of raw materials to finished products Originally, these products were processed manually until Industrial Revolution has allowed these products to be produced by machines Most of the manufacturing lines in the industries use the combination of manual processing and machine processing This is referred to as semi-automated production line Thus, there are two factors affecting the productivity of this production line-manpower and machine efficiency During the Covid-19 pandemic, skeletal workforce was strictly implemented in almost every sector across the globe Reassignment of manpower allocation has therefore been a problem of the management This paper focuses on manpower allocation of a Bumping Area of a Semiconductor Company in the Philippines Factors affecting manpower allocation such as maximum machine capacity, minimum output requirement and number of qualified production specialist were studied and taken into consideration Using Linear Programming, optimal number of manpower was determined and the target output of 64,000 unit moves daily was achieved However, this can be further improved by utilizing the excess production specialist through cross-training them in different module Machine capacity can also be maximized by hiring more production specialist to operate on them © IEOM Society International