Cognitive augmentation of human capabilities for inclusive and socially sustainable manufacturing
- The demographic evolution reinforces the need to continuously improve the well-being of factory workers and the attractiveness and inclusiveness of manufacturing workplaces. Human-centred developments should also Increase overall factory throughput, energy efficiency, use of resources, etc...
- Cognitive augmentation will be brought about by
- shifting the focus to the people bringing value in manufacturing, including collaborative working environments
- data engineering so that AI works for humans (who are in this case expert domains) and not the opposite.
- advanced information sharing and personalised digital work instructions
- advanced visualisation technologies at factory/machine/process level
- advanced data models, synthetic data generation and semantics
- intuitive interaction with AI and data analytics technologies
- Human augmentation goes beyond technologies , it is about increasing human impact and capabilities addressing organisational and management approaches.