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Understanding the transformation of the factory work and organisation
General desciption of Understanding the transformation of the factory work and organisation:
- A number of technologies as for example AR, VR, human-robot cooperation, advance HMIs were developed, demonstrated and tested during the past years and these developments should continue.
- However, there is a need to speed up the technology uptake and speed up the change with actions that focus on the transformation of the way of the work itself.
- The transformation of manufacturing jobs should be observed (the operation of equipment, planning, quality control, maintenance, engineering, etc...) including manufacturing innovation/design/development processes and ways of collaboration inside the companies and/or networks.
- There is a need to identify how the technology has changed the work (and the associated job profle and if/how the workplace became more attractive/inclusive.
- Linking back to industrial competitiveness and excellence, it should be demonstrated how human-centred innovations in manufacturing will not only have a positive impact on the well-being of workers, but also how these developments will reduce the non-value added time, increase the quality, productivity, efficiency etc.
Comment:
Human-technology interaction and in particular the collaboration between humans and artificial intelligence are likely to lead to a decentralization of decision-making and capabilities across organisations and nodes of supply networks. This implies empowering stakeholders, e.g. employees, suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, customers, to make decisions autonomously based on real-time information availability and context. It will be important to understand how continuing transformation will involve bottom-up driven changes in both strategic and operational management.