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Flexibility
General desciption of Flexibility:
Flexibility in manufacturing means the ability to deal with slightly or greatly mixed parts, to allow variation in parts assembly and variations in process sequence, change the production volume and change the design of certain product being manufactured.
(from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_manufacturing_system)
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COALA solution for on-the-job-training using digital assistant allows the workers to meet the requirements of their work environtment: to be skilled and flexible. To keep up with continuously changing demands and to cope with altering product and process information, production workers need to adopt an approach that welcomes change. They need to be empowered by making customization transparent, enabling rapid adaptations, providing operational flexibility, and augmentation of their skills.
COALA aims to develop a cognitive advisor with dedicated human-assisted AI methods for enabling transfer of tacit knowledge of experts to novice workers. The transfer of tacit knowledge of production workers that grows with their experiences enabling them to cope with challenges of agile manufacturing.
For the change over time we expect a reduction of 15% to 30% by shortening the worker training time.