This paper presents a two-stage mixed integer programming approach for optimizing the skill mix and training schedule at the aircraft maintenance company Sabena Technics. Of course, when all workers are trained for all skills, cheaper workforce schedules are possible. However, the training that...

This paper presents a heuristic approach to optimize sta ng and scheduling at an aircraft maintenance company. The goal is to build robust aircraft maintenance personnel rosters that can achieve a certain service level while minimizing the total labour costs. Robust personnel rosters are rosters...

This paper presents a fast heuristic approach to optimize staffing and scheduling of the workforce at an aircraft maintenance company. Two linked Tabu Search algorithms are proposed to minimize the labour costs and to maximize employee satisfaction. To enhance the performance of the algorithm,...