93 results about "Work shift" patented technology

A cash recycling machine (11) is connected in a network with a computer (10) and other recycling equipment (12), the cash recycling machine (11) having an input device (18) for receiving cash, a sorter (31) for sorting the cash into a plurality of hopper assemblies (26–29), a controller (21) responsive to inputs from a user in a first operating cycle of the machine to cause the hopper assemblies (26–29) to dispense an amount of sorted cash to a cash drawer and to store the amount of dispensed cash in memory in association with a user account number, the controller (21) being responsive to input of a batch of cash and the user account number in a second cycle to count the cash received, and to compare the amount of cash received with the amount of cash dispensed to determine a net amount of cash associated with the user. The controller (21) has the ability to track transactions of employees through the work shift for reconciliation at the end of the work shift and to report results to a central accounting computer.

A work management apparatus generates a temporary shift table in which scheduled work times of employees are temporarily set, based on an employee information file and work management file stored in a file memory. The work management apparatus sends the generated temporary shift table to a plurality of portable terminals over a network. When receiving, over the network, response information sent from the plurality of portable terminals in response to the sent temporary shift table, the work management apparatus generates a settled shift table in which scheduled work times of employees are settled, based on the received response information. The work management apparatus automatically sends the generated settled shift table to the plurality of portable terminals over the network.

A procedure is provided by which a worker is able to alter his or her work schedule using a computer system. The worker accesses work shift positions that have been designated as being alterable and chooses one as a selected work shift position. That selection may also specify a wage at the worker is willing to be compensated for staffing the selected work shift position. The computer system determines whether the worker is qualified to perform the tasks associated with the selected work shift position. If qualified, the worker is scheduled into the selected work shift position. The computer system also may provide a mechanism by which two workers can trade previously scheduled work shift positions.

Operations of a shift worker platform include receiving a shifter designation command designating an employee of a common employer entity to become one of a plurality of shifters and receiving available shift data generated using an interactive job provider client calendar, the available shift data representing an available work shift of a job provider client of the common employer entity. The operations further include establishing one or more matches between the available shift data and the plurality of shifters, updating an interactive shifter calendar of each of the matching shifters to include a visual representation of the available work shift, and receiving shift selection data generated using the shifter calendar of one of the matching shifters, the shift selection data including a selection of the available work shift by the shifter. The operations further include updating the job provider client calendar to include a visual representation of the selection.

Call center agent training is provided on a non-scheduled basis and is characterized as having a duration that is less than a scheduling interval used to schedule the agent for their work shift, as well as schedule other activities in the work shift. The delivery of snippet training content may be triggered by various conditions, including in response to: a request for training originating from the agent, a period of continuous call processing activity of the agent, various agent performance metrics, or probabilistically assigned to an agent in a group. Various parameters may selectively limit provision of a snippet training session. The agents provided with training are placed in an unavailable state prior to the snippet training session, and placed back into an available state afterwards. The snippet training content may be variously structured and can be grouped together to form an e-learning course delivered to the agent.

A method and apparatus for analyzing the nature, location, position and orientation of hand hygiene dispensers within a facility and correlating that information with the usage experienced by each specific dispensers in order to correlate usage with physical characteristics of the dispenser, its location and position. Dispensers of various types are provided with data chips and acquire data correlating usage with the date and time of a dispensing cycle. The physical parameters associated with each dispenser are also known and recorded. All of this data is downloaded periodically into a database that assess such data in order to correlate usage of hand hygiene dispensers with parameters such as the nature of the dispenser, its location, position and orientation, time of day, work shift and the like. From this data, parameters can be defined that will optimize the use and positioning of hand hygiene dispensers within a facility such as a health care unit, hotel, restaurant or the like. According to one embodiment of the invention, the data is acquired by a reader or transponder that communicates with the data chip of the various dispensers using infrared or ultrasonic signal transmission. This acquired data is downloaded into a data processor for the analysis and optimization of dispenser positioning.

The invention relates to an automatic scheduling method for urban public bus lines, in particular to a method for processing vehicle dispatching data by utilizing data uploaded by a vehicle-mounted terminal, which solves the problems of poor real-time and effectiveness of manual scheduling. The method comprises the following steps: a database logins information of all vehicles, sites and lines, and establishes relevant corresponding relation tables; a control center receives entry and exit data and passenger flow data which are uploaded by the vehicles in real time through mobile communication and stores the data into the database; the database calculates time-segmented average travel time and average passenger flow volume of all the lines every day; the control center determines time-segmented departure intervals by using the time-segmented average passenger flow volume of the lines, automatically draws up static uplink and downlink work shift tables of the lines by combining with the time-segmented average travel time, resolves the static uplink and downlink work shift tables into booking sheets of the vehicles, and issues the booking sheets to the vehicles for execution through mobile communication; and the control center monitors the running state of the vehicles, automatically finds out substitutes when vehicles delay and amends the two work shift tables to form the booking sheets which are issued to the vehicles for execution through mobile communication.

An acuity level is assigned to each inpatient at a medical facility and an employee scheduling program uses the patient acuity levels to calculate the number of employees that are required to provide care to the patients. A profile is compiled for each employee specifying that person's patient care capability. The calculated number of employees and the employee profiles are used to schedule employees during the work shifts at the medical facility. At various points in time, the actual amount of time an each employee has worked and the amount of time each employee is scheduled to work in the future are utilized to project whether an employee will work overtime. A supervisor is alerted to projected overtime and may reschedule employees to avoid incurring overtime.

A liquid crystal display (LCD) having a working and a redundant shift register for driving the gate lines of the display. A plurality of repair lines RL1-RLn run in parallel with the plurality of gate lines GL1-GLn between the working shift register whose stages are arranged to one side of the display and the redundant shift register whose stages are arranged on the opposite side of the display. Initially the repair lines are not connected to either of the shift registers and the gate lines are only connected to the outputs of the working shift register. Both the working and the redundant shift register are connected to receive the same input driving signals. When a defect is discovered in the working shift register, a laser beam is used to disconnect the output of the defective shift register stage from its gate line. A laser beam is then used to connect end of the repair line to receive the input signal for the defective stage and connect the other end of the repair line to deliver the input signal to the input terminal of the corresponding stage of the redundant shift register. The output terminal of the corresponding stage of the redundant shift register is connected to normally unconnected end of the gate line from the defective stage so as to deliver output to the stage of working register following the defective stage.

A method for identifying medical diverters includes identifying users having similar job functions. Use data indicative of user access to a medication dispensing system is retrieved and is analyzed to identify periods of use of the system for users. Boundaries of work shifts are determined and users are organized into work shifts based on periods of use. A comparison period is determined. Diversion data indicative of behavior associated with diversion for each user is identified. A diversion score indicative of a likelihood that a user is diverting medication is generated by averaging the data by shifts worked for each user and statistically comparing the averaged data. Diversion scores are combined for a medication type to generate a group score. A consistency factor is determined and an overall score is generated. A determination whether any overall scores exceed an overall threshold is made. Users whose score exceeds the threshold are flagged.

The invention provides a power assembly for a two-shift motor vehicle. A driving motor is integrally connected with a two-shift transmission so as to form a modularized power assembly which is simple to assemble and maintain. The transmission of the power assembly is a speed-change mechanism with two working shifts, namely a low-speed shift and a high-speed shift. The vehicle runs by using the low-speed shift while climbing under a heavy load and runs by using the high-speed shift while running on smooth road surface under a light road. The speed-change mechanism is implemented by using a synchronizer on a second shaft, and is jointed with a low-speed or a high-speed driven gear respectively through the synchronizer so as to realize low-speed and high-speed operations. The power assembly for the two-shift motor vehicle has a compact structure and flexible and convenient operation, and can reduce rated power for driving the motor.

A method of and system for handling allocation of task work to resources with flexibly configured availability contours (work calendars) is disclosed. The method includes defining one or more base calendars, a resource calendar associated with each resource, wherein the resource calendar inherits from a base calendar. A calendar reader, a set of recurring exception records, and a set of effective weeks for each calendar are also defined. For a specific date, the method determines whether an exception exists in one of the base calendar and resource calendar, and if an exception exists, computes a cached effective week honoring the exception data from an associated recurring exception record. If an exception does not exist, a cached effective week for the resource is computed from a combination of the calendar's standard week and associated effective week records. The cached effective week is contains day state information (working shifts) for the resource for each weekday of the calendar week surrounding the initially requested date. The cached effective week can then used by a scheduling engine to schedule task work for the resource honoring the intended availability contour. The disclosure can also be thought of as describing a system which includes a processor and a memory coupled with and readable by the processor. The memory contains a series of instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to define one or more base calendar and a resource calendar associated with each resource. Each resource calendar inherits from the base calendar. The processor also defines a calendar reader, a set of recurring exception records, and a set of effective week records for each calendar. For a specific date, the processor determines whether an exception exists in one of the base calendar and resource calendar. If an exception exists, it computes a cached effective week including the exception from the associated recurring exception record. If an exception does not exist, it computes the cached effective week using a combination of the calendar's standard week and associated effective week entries. In both cases, the cached effective week is kept for subsequent use in establishing day state information (shift times) for the resource for each weekday of the calendar week surrounding the initially requested date.

A method of balancing workload using critical dates and including the following steps: (a) assigning a promised delivery date to orders received from customers; (b) identifying one or more tasks associated with each of the orders; (c) assigning an expedited date or a customer requested date to each of the tasks of some of the orders; (d) determining a work start date for each of the one or more tasks in each of the orders; (e) assigning a first priority to tasks having a work start date D; (f) assigning a second priority to tasks scheduled to begin on day D+n and having the expedited date; (g) assigning a third priority to tasks scheduled to begin on day D+n and having the customer requested date; (h) setting n equal to a value of 1; (i) working on tasks during a work shift based on order of priority, wherein work on a lower priority task is not commenced until work on all tasks with higher priorities has been completed; (j) increasing n by an increment of 1; and (k) repeating steps (g), (h), (i), (j) and (k) until the work shift for day D has ended.

A system and method for scheduling healthcare workers that includes a healthcare worker database containing information obtained from healthcare worker registries, healthcare facility databases, instructions to search for available healthcare workers from the healthcare worker database to fill an open work shift of a healthcare facility based on the facility's preferences, instructions to display information relating to the healthcare workers available to fill the unfilled healthcare facility shift, an automated response system for automatically contacting an available healthcare worker or workers with details of the unfilled shift, and instructions to obtain a response from the available healthcare worker or workers either accepting or rejecting the unfilled shift.

The medical sack is lightweight, simplified in design and construction, and able to store therein a variety of personal and medical items of a user during the work shift within a medical environment. The medical sack evenly distributes the weight of the items stored therein upon the back of the user permitting easy access for quick retrieval.