MiE_25-27_RP12: 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.