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2021 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Quantifying Resource Inter-activity Utilization Efficiency Through Simulation-Based Scheduling
Authors : Leila Zahedi, Ming Lu
Published in: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
This research investigates resource inter-activity utilization efficiency arising from resource shared use and transfer observed in planning projects at a structural steel fabrication shop. Aided with discrete event simulation-based resource-constrained scheduling analysis, the necessity of defining the resource inter-activity utilization efficiency factor is justified in project scheduling and budgeting in practice. The Simplified Scheduling Simulation (S3) platform based on the simplified discrete-event simulation approach (SDESA) is utilized to create a resource loaded schedule for a simple project case in order to facilitate analyzing resource inter-activity utilization efficiency. Further, the problem of how to optimize labor inter-activity utilization efficiency is formulated conceptually, which is vitally important to project cost budgeting and earned value management in applications resembling operating a major steel fabrication facility.