Master Employee Shift Scheduling with AI: A Technical Guide to Timefold Software
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- In this video we showcase how Timefold's robust constraint-based solver can be seamlessly integrated into your existing software systems, empowering you to automate and optimize shift planning for a workforce. Whether you're a developer or a tech-savvy manager, you'll find valuable insights on enhancing your operational efficiency. Solve your employee shift planning problem with Timefold.
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Is it possible to schedule the times with extra conditions. Like a real time weather forecast? So if like its sunny ill need more people working because we expect more customers?
You would do that by creating more shifts in the input to the shift schedule solver.
You'll probably need continuous planning or real-time planing (see our other videos), because many industries have a publish notice of 4 to 6 weeks and weather is the weather forecast is only 2 weeks. So you'd schedule the baseline shifts 4-6 weeks in advance and then add in extra shifts due to weather forecast a few days in advance.
And one level higher than that is doing virtual assignments in the schedule that only activate 2 days in advance if and only if the weather will be good. This way, you don't paint yourself in a corner with the baseline schedule.
I am using Timefold in a Java + Springboot application for scheduling shifts for doctors in a hospital. Each diagnostic unit has multiple time slots (morning, afternoon, night). Is it possible to define templates for fixed assignments? For example, to have the engine assign Doctor M1 to a specific diagnostic unit on Monday and Tuesday mornings; Doctor M2 on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons; and Doctor M3 on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights.
Yes. We call it shift patterns in our Timefold Employee Shift Scheduling model.
@@GeoffreyDeSmet Thank you! Where can I find documentation or examples about it, so I can integrate it into my Java + Spring Boot application?
Do we have full support for Kotlin + Springboot? We have a use case and tried the POC in java and works well. We are planning to go with Kotlin + Springboot?
Yes, full support for Kotin + Spring Boot. In the timefold-quickstarts repo, take a look at the folder technology, you'll find a kotlin quickstart and a spring boot quickstarts there. Enjoy!
@@GeoffreyDeSmetThanks for the prompt reply.. this helps a lot!
Can I use it for a hotel operation?
Absolutely. You can tailor it to employee shift scheduling for hotels, or create a new Timefold model to deal with guest to room scheduling in hotels (similar to the hospital bed planning example in Timefold).
iam sorry sir, cannot we use it on golang ?
This is truly surprising, but I have a question: Can Timefold run on a standalone machine without internet access?
Yes, we support airgapped installations.
Hard to bring this up to my boss and claim the company can save money using ai when you hide the pricing behind a contact form.
Fair point, for the paid REST API approach. We're working on clear, simple, usage-based pricing.
The build your own model approach is free (open source).